Fortress Academic: 46 books
Scripture and Social Justice
Catholic and Ecumenical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling...
The Freedom of God
A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Freedom of God wrangles with the unfolding legacy of Christian theologian Robert Jenson and presents the first in-depth study of his teaching on the Holy Spirit. It is a specialist monograph that will entice those with interest in academic theology, systematics, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century...
An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ
The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ: The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer details the theology, ethics, and philosophy of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965). It surveys his entire corpus of religious writings, including his unfinished estate works, and explores...
by Michael Azar, R. Alan Culpepper, Marcia Kupfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Fourth Gospel is at the same time a sublime work that has inspired and enriched the faith of countless Christians and a problematic text that has provided potent anti-Jewish imagery exploited in anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic discourse over the course of two millennia. The Fourth Gospel contains...
Who Is an African?
Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins...
Enfleshing Theology
Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland,...
Jürgen Moltmann and the Work of Hope
The Future of Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
These essays reflect on the future of Christian theology in light of the contributions Jürgen Moltmann has made in his prolific career as one of the world’s foremost theologians. They are not a prediction of what is coming in the future of theology, since God’s own actions, and human history,...
Decolonizing Revelation
A Spatial Reading of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
At a time when ideas like “post-racial society” and “#BlackLivesMatter” occupy the same space, scholars of black American faith are provided a unique opportunity to regenerate and imagine theological frameworks that confront the epistemic effects of racialization and its confluence with the...
by John T. Slotemaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This volume provides a broad interpretation of Anselm’s theological method through a study of his Monologion. The Monologion has been chosen specifically because of its rich and nuanced account of the search for the one God. Through a careful analysis of this text what becomes evident is that Anselm’s...
Uniting History and Theology
A Theological Critique of the Historical Method
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Uniting History and Theology argues that, for too long, Christians primarily have used the historical method to make historical claims. In doing so, they have used a method grounded in an incomplete understating of German historicism, thereby closing off investigation of the past from the aesthetic...
Karl Barth and the Study of the Religious Enlightenment
Encountering the Task of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Encountering the Task of History analyzes the intellectual history of the eighteenth century provided by Karl Barth, most notably in his Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century. Barth anticipates the recent scholarship on the religious roots, impact, and significance of the Enlightenment, foreshadowing...
Luther, Bonhoeffer, and Public Ethics
Re-Forming the Church of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the commemoration of the Reformation in conversation...
Jesus, Transcendence, and Generosity
Christology and Transcendence in Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a ‘middle way’ between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon HansFrei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing...
The Young Against the Old
Generational Conflict in First Clement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The so-called First Epistle of Clement has long intrigued historians of early Christianity. It responds to a crisis in the Corinthian church by enjoining an ethic of subordination especially to the presbyteroi and episkopoi, but the exact nature of that conflict has eluded scholars. L. L. Welborn...