Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor
The Second Letter of Peter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor is a sociorhetorical interpretation of the Second Letter of Peter. Using multiple interpretive perspectives and emphasizing the pictorial dimensions of 2 Peter, Terrance Callan understands the letter as making the following argument: since Jesus Christ has given...
In the Labyrinth of Grief
40 Words of God that Offer Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
In the Labyrinth of Grief 40 Words of God that Offer Comfort Brief meditations for those in sorrow When death enters our life, a process begins that we refer to as grieving. This is a confusing process that is accompanied by different emotions such as sadness, unbelief, relief, anger, resignation,...
Dear Brothers, With Leader’s Guide
Letters Facing Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Sooner or later every person faces questions about death and whether there is anything beyond it. This little book consists of personal and sometime private letters between three brothers who realize their own lives may soon come to an end. The wisdom they offer is not only for their own families...
Dear Brothers
Letters Facing Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sooner or later every person faces questions about death and whether there is anything beyond it. This little book consists of personal and sometime private letters between three brothers who realize their own lives may soon come to an end. The wisdom they offer is not only for their own families...
The Holy One of Israel
Studies in the Book of Isaiah
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Growing out of the work that the author did in preparing two major commentaries on Isaiah, these essays range from comprehensive to specific, and from popular to scholarly. They first appeared in biblical dictionaries, scholarly journals, and popular periodicals. Gathered here for the first time,...
Rethinking Hell
Readings in Evangelical Conditionalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians,...
Jeremiah
Prophet Like Moses
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This book on Jeremiah seeks to place before a broad audience of students and lay readers one of the truly great Hebrew prophets and extraordinary individuals of the ancient world. It lifts up major themes preserved in the book bearing Jeremiah's name, one of the most prominent being Jeremiah's understanding...
Divine Abundance
Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
It's time to say a good word for the ten o'clock scholar. The recovery of a flourishing academic culture--which is not the same as being a major research center--lies in the recovery of leisure. The heart of this practice is contemplation and Divine worship. It names, furthermore, our lives as being...
Living Waters from Ancient Springs
Essays in Honor of Cornelis Van Dam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Is the Old Testament still relevant for Christians today? Which fountains of wisdom, which never-failing streams, which wells of joy-filled salvation are we missing out on, if we neglect the Old Testament (Prov 18:4; Amos 5:24; Isa 12:3)? In this celebratory volume, fifteen scholars collaborate to...
Judges
A Theological Commentary for Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Judges: A Theological Commentary for Preachers engages hermeneutics for preaching, employing theological exegesis that enables the preacher to utilize all the units of the letter to craft effective sermons. This commentary unpacks the crucial link between Scripture and application: the theology of...
Martin Luther on Reading the Bible as Christian Scripture
The Messiah in Luther’s Biblical Hermeneutic and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Above all else that the sixteenth-century German Reformer was known for, Martin Luther was a Doctor of the Holy Scriptures. One of the most characteristic features of Luther's approach to Scripture was his resolved christological interpretation of the Bible. Many of the Reformer's interpreters have...
Who Needs a Missionary?
How the Gospel Works All by Itself
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In Who Needs a Missionary? Robert Reese reviews his own missionary experiences in Zimbabwe and finds that the best results came from an indigenous leader who had the least contact with missionaries. Reese conducted interviews with this leader to let him speak for himself about his journey with God...
Marking the Church
Essays in Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
More than one person has joked over the years that Evangelical believers do not have an ecclesiology. In one sense, that is absurd: Evangelical churches (especially if you include Pentecostals in that group) are some of the fastest-growing, most vibrant churches in the world. Evangelicals are proclaiming...
by Granville Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
In Christianity for Doubters, mathematician Granville Sewell looks at a series of issues that cause Christians to doubt. The first two chapters effectively counter the widely believed idea that science can explain how we got here without design. The remaining chapters examine, from a non-fundamentalist...