Wipf And Stock Publishers: 1811 books
Love and the Postmodern Predicament
Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of "reality" is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim...
What’s So Liberal about the Liberal Arts?
Integrated Approaches to Christian Formation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
FRAMEWORKS is a series dedicated to interdisciplinary studies on the integration of faith and learning. Given Jesus' command to "love God with heart, soul, mind, and strength," the time is ripe for confessional scholarship and education across the disciplines. We implore God's Spirit to...
by Emily Askew, O. Wesley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church. Instead it assumes the reader is a minister or student of ministry who already has a passion for this issue and is looking for better strategies to speak out of this passion...
Negating Negation
Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Negating Negation critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols, removal and negation, hierarchy and hierurgy, ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things...
Grazing and Growing
Developing Disciples through Contextualized Worship Arts in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book explores the impact of contextualized worship arts on the development of church ministry and missions in urban churches in Beira, Mozambique. This applied research, which took place over the course of two years, focuses on expanding the song-writing workshop model in an effort to enhance...
Creation Made Free
Open Theology Engaging Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Open Theology offers an advantageous framework for engaging the sciences. With its emphasis upon creaturely freedom, relationality, realist epistemology, and love, Open Theology makes a fruitful dialogue partner with leading fields and theories in contemporary science. In Creation Made Free, leading...
Prophetic Poetry
Holy Agitation for Peace, Justice, and Passion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This poetry becomes an agent of transformation in offering a new direction for our lives. It provokes a little holy agitation by tossing poems like pebbles into placid pools of water to cause some waves. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war,...
Argula von Grumbach (1492–1554/7)
A Woman before Her Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
At a time when women were expected to stick to their household duties, according to Peter Matheson, Argula von Grumbach burst through every barrier. Matheson offers here a biography of the Reformation's first woman writer. Argula von Grumbach's first pamphlet in 1523 was reprinted all over Germany....
Beauty
A Theological Engagement with Gregory of Nyssa
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty's place in theology and the broader world. With the recent resurgence of attention to beauty among theologians, questions still remain about what exactly beauty is, how it is perceived, and whether we should celebrate its return....
From Generation to Generation
The Adaptive Challenge of Mainline Protestant Education in Forming Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Mainline Protestant congregations face a profound adaptive challenge. In the midst of significant social, cultural, and technological change, the denominations they represent generally abandoned a view of education capable of maintaining and renewing their faith traditions through their children and...
by Sarah Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
The poems in Hold Them Close express the joys and hardships of life in its breadth, from the sacred story of Christian spirituality, to the profanity of injustice; through the isolation of the poet and PhD student's life and the deep connections to family, friends, community, and creation. In her...
Progressive Creation and the Struggles of Humanity in the Bible
A Canonical Narrative Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Why does the Christian walk often feel like an ongoing struggle and why does God's creation include imperfection, let alone forces that are intent on thwarting God's creative work? In seeking a response to these questions, this book argues that the biblical accounts describe creation in terms of a...
Awakening Youth Discipleship
Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Youth ministry has increasingly lost touch with its origins in the way of Jesus and the social practices intrinsic to Christian discipleship, and has instead substituted layers of Jesus talk, middle class values, fun and games, and doses of warm fellow-feeling. Awakening Youth Discipleship articulates...
Between Sisters
Emancipatory Hope out of Tragic Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In a world laced with the lethal threads of racism, sexism, classism, and sexual oppression we need a liberating hope that dismantles these intersecting problems that render us into a stupor of chronic despair. In the United States, where the color of your skin can determine life or death, we need...