Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Seeing-Remembering-Connecting
Subversive Practices of Being Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book draws from Bloomquist's many years and formative experiences as a pastor, theologian, activist, seminary professor, and speaker in a number of settings--both within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and ecumenically and globally. Drawing insights from many sources, Seeing-Remembering-Connecting...
Freedom of the Self
Kenosis, Cultural Identity, and Mission at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Freedom of the Self revitalizes the question of identity formation in a postmodern era through a deep reading of Christian life in relation to current trends seen in the Emergent and Missional church movements. By relocating deep identity formation as formed and released through a renewed appraisal...
Changing Church
Stories of Liberating Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Through the fascinating stories of pioneering ministers, this book reveals a unique picture of progressive changes occurring in the Christian tradition. Meeting challenges and overcoming obstacles, these twelve diverse ministers are changing the church as they take prophetic stands on gender, race,...
Homiletical Theology in Action
The Unfinished Theological Task of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Homiletics is taking a theological turn. But what does the preaching task look like if we think of it not so much as a mastery of technique, but an exercise in theological method? Homiletical Theology in Action: The Unfinished Theological Task of Preaching tries to envision the work of homiletics...
Theologies of the Gospel in Context
The Crux of Homiletical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Many preachers and teachers of preaching talk about the gospel; few name it. Theologies of the Gospel in Context assembles a gifted group of homileticians who think that preachers need to be able to articulate the gospel not "in general," but in a certain time and place, in context. They...
Wisdom and Spiritual Transcendence at Corinth
Studies in First Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Examining each of the major sections of 1 Corinthians, Horsley probes the disagreement Paul had with those claiming special spiritual status. The conflicts over what constitute wisdom, knowledge, and spirituality cut to the core of what Paul was trying to accomplish in his communities. Horsley moves...
by Richard A. Horsley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research...
Image, Incarnation, and Christian Expansivism
A Meta-Philosophy of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
I am the way, the truth, and the life, says Jesus. Yet the kingdom of heaven consists of all tribes, races, and peoples. How do people of tribes who've never heard the word of Christ enter the kingdom of God? A strictly exclusivist account of the gospel seems to keep many people out of the kingdom...
The Resurrection of Immortality
An Essay in Philosophical Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense. On that Christians agree. But not all Christians agree on whether humans are essentially immortal. Some hold that the early church was right to borrow from the ancient Greek philosophers and...
Finding Grace with God
A Phenomenological Reading of the Annunciation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Finding Grace with God: A Phenomenological Reading of the Annunciation engages in an interweaving of phenomenology, mystical theology, and feminist philosophy to unfold a theopoetic interpretation of the narrative of the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke. It begins with a discussion of the foundational...
by Douglas E. Oakman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
While some of the chapters focus on systemic issues, others probe the depths of individual Gospel passages. The author's keen eye for textual detail, archaeological data, comparative materials, and systemic overviews make this volume a joy for anyone interested in understanding Jesus in his own context....
In Case of Katrina
Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Since six months after landfall, Ellen Blue has taught "The Church's Response to Katrina." It sidesteps disaster response, where clearly the church should be involved. What was unclear was how leaders in a connectional denomination like United Methodism should decide which churches to merge...
Love That Rejoices in the Truth
Theological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Love, says the apostle Paul, does not rejoice over injustice, but rejoices in the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6). The theological explorations undertaken here all deal in one way or another with the liberating promise and the perplexing problem of truth in Christian life and witness, and with the ways...
The Perfection of Freedom
Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller,...