Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
The Theological Education of the Ministry
Soundings in the British Reformed and Dissenting Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Unwilling on conscientious grounds to submit to the religious tests imposed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the English and Welsh Dissenters of the second half of the seventeenth century established academies in which their young men, many of them destined for the ministry, might receive...
One Ministry, Many Ministers
A Case Study from the Reformed Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The heart of this book is the claim that the one church catholic comprises all who, on the ground of Christ's saving work, are called and gathered by God the Holy Spirit into a fellowship whose only Head is Christ himself; and that all thus called are granted the high privilege of sharing in a variety...
Convinced, Concise, and Christian
The Thought of Huw Parri Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
This is the first comprehensive study of the thought of the Welsh theologian-philosopher Huw Parri Owen (1926-1996). Indebted to the heritage of Christian thought, and not bewitched by Barth, bothered by Flew, or bewildered by Bultmann, Owen brought considerable biblical, philosophical, and theological...
Christ and Controversy
The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600–2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
What may happen when Christians take doctrine seriously? One possible answer is that the shape of churchly life on the ground can be significantly altered. This pioneering study is both an account of the doctrine of the person of Christ as it has been expounded by the theologians of historic English...
Remembering Lived Lives
A Historiography from the Underside of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this study challenges both historians...
God and Gadgets
Following Jesus in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Technologies are deeply embedded in the modern West. What would our lives be like without asphalt, glass, gasoline, electricity, window screens, or indoor plumbing? We naturally praise technology when it is useful and bemoan it when it is not. But there is much more to technology than the usefulness...
by Tatha Wiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
How do our current notions of the workings of the universe fit with our deepest convictions about its meaning and value? From religion, we grasp the world as created, given, gift. From science, we apprehend it as evolving, in process, changing. How do we bring these apprehensions together? Or can...
The Whole Gospel for the Whole World
Experiencing the Fourfold Gospel Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Like most Protestant denominations, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) was founded upon ideas that shaped its vision and ethos throughout its history. Also like most denominations, over time the influence of these ideas on the movement tends to diminish. Denominations, like any organization,...
Azusa, Rome, and Zion
Pentecostal Faith, Catholic Reform, and Jewish Roots
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Azusa, Rome, and Zion offers historical, theological, and spiritual reflections on major movements of the Holy Spirit in modern times. The author shows where the lived experience of these movements challenges received theological concepts and categories, and indicates how engagement with these challenges...
Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, vol. 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The commentary tradition regarding 1 Corinthians unanimously identifies the "weak" as Christ-followers whose faith was not yet sufficient to indulge in the eating of idol food with indifference, as if ideally Paul wanted them to become "strong" enough to do so. Commentaries also...
Reading Paul within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The dominant portrayals of the apostle Paul are of a figure who no longer valued Jewish identity and behavior, opposing them for both Jew and non-Jew in his assemblies. This prevailing version of Paul depends heavily upon certain interpretations of key "flashpoint" passages. In this book...
Reading Romans within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Over fifty years ago, Vatican II's Nostra Aetate 4 drew from Romans 11 to challenge the way Paul's voice has been used to negatively discuss Jews and Judaism. The church called for Catholics to conceptualize Jews as "brothers" in "an everlasting covenant," and many other Christian...
The Story of Narrative Preaching
Experience and Exposition: A Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical. Unfortunately, they were sometimes tedious too. Narrative preaching aimed to fix that, advocating for a dynamic experience of the text over against a static lecture. Preaching could be like the parables of Jesus,...
by John Killinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church, so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith. In their...