Fortress Press: 773 books
The Last Word and the Word after That
A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Book Three in The New Kind of Christian Trilogy
In the final installment of The New Kind of Christian Trilogy, Pastor Dan Poole and his friends face and survive their questions, doubts, and dark nights of the soul. They begin to imagine a new vision of God--and a new way of life that is more...
The Story We Find Ourselves In
Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Book Two in The New Kind of Christian Trilogy
The Story We Find Ourselves In is the sequel to Brian D. McLaren's award-winning book A New Kind of Christian. His witty and wise characters take on difficult, faith-busting themes--from evolution and evangelism to death and the meaning of life--and...
Political Vanity
Adam Ferguson on the Moral Tensions of Early Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Political Vanity aims to illuminate the central debates over the historical, moral, and political legitimacy of market capitalism as though still profoundly theological in character. This theological sensitivity is achieved by keeping conversation with central theorists of the Scottish Enlightenment,...
Engaging Bonhoeffer
The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer's Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s life and writing on later thought. Despite his lasting legacy, little substantial scholarship has been conducted in this area. In this magisterial collection, leading international scholars fill this striking gap and...
Finding God Among our Neighbors
An Interfaith Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For too many students, Christian theology is learned in isolation from other religions traditions. With this, the second volume of her important work, Kristin Johnston Largen returns to expand the systematic theology she began in the original volume.
Largen places the work of Christian theology...
by Bruce J. Malina, John J. Pilch
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on them. The Social-Science Commentary on the Deutero-Pauline Letters provides essential “reading scenarios” on specific cultural phenomena...
Give Me Children or I Shall Die
Children and Communal Survival in Biblical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival. In such an economy, children’s labor contributes to the family’s livelihood from a young age, rather than simply preparing the child for future adult work. Ethnographic research shows...
by Richard A. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1980
For more than thirty years, The Christological Controversy has been an essential text for courses in theology, church history, and early Christianity that seek to better understand the development of Christology from its earliest roots to the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
The volume gives modern...
Down in the Valley
An Introduction to African American Religious History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
African American religions constitute a diverse group of beliefs and practices that emerged from the African diaspora brought about by the Atlantic slave trade. Traditional religions that had informed the worldviews of Africans were transported to the shores of the Americas and transformed to make...
Truth and Politics
A Theological Comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Truth and Politics tackles the crucial question of how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically, through an analysis and comparison of the thought of two of the most important contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and John Milbank.
Peter...
The Histories of the Latin American Church
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The story of Latin American Christianity is too often appended to the end of larger narratives and is rarely given the full consideration it deserves. And yet, the rich stories of Christianity in Latin America deserve our full attention. With this brief, engaging, and helpful overview, Joel M. Cruz...
The Bible
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What is the Bible? How did it get to us? Why are translations so different? And what influence has the Bible had on culture? From its very first pages, The Bible: An Introduction offers clear answers to the most basic questions that first-time students and curious inquirers bring to the Bible. Without...
The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
Preaching an Emancipating Word
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The necessary context of prophetic preaching, Walter Brueggemann argues, is “a contestation between narratives”: the dominant narrative of our time, which promoting self-sufficiency at the national level (through militarism) and the personal (through consumerism), and the countervailing...
by Derek R. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 24 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades.
Each contributor sets out to discuss the development of their central insights and convictions in light...