Fortress Press: 773 books
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Finding Faith after Certainty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
God is not an idea. Christian faith is not a set of propositions you either believe or reject. According to a proper Trinitarian understanding, God is essentially relationship, a relationship of sheer, active, ecstatic, self-giving love. If we truly are encountered by this magnificent love of the...
Coming Full Circle
Constructing Native Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Coming Full Circle, a unique, multicollaborative project, provides a working constructive Native Christian theology. Drawing together leading scholars in the field, along with elders and practitioners, this volume seeks to fill a significant lacuna in the area and to encourage young Native American...
The Sense of the Universe
Philosophical Explication of the Theological Commitment in Modern Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Sense of the Universe deals with existential and phenomenological reflection upon modern cosmology with the aim to reveal hidden theological commitments in cosmology related to the mystery of human existence. The book proposes a new approach to the dialogue between science and theology based in...
Becoming a Christian in Christendom
Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's "Christian" Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it, rendering it redundant and innocuous? Arguing for a reconceptualization of the theology of the cross and radical communal practices, this book brings together two clusters...
The Future of the Word
An Eschatology of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In scripture, Jesus promises a future that potentially infuses all texts: “my words will not pass away” (Matt 24:28). This book argues that texts—even literary texts—, have an eschatology, too, a part in God’s purpose for the cosmos. They, with all creation, move toward participation in...
Empowering Couples
A Narrative Approach to Spiritual Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to...
Bible and African Americans
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2003
The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush here outlines the five phases of African American reading and shows how the Bible offered a language-world...
by Jonathan Clatworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off of each other. Each intellectual argument and rhetorical flourish acts as encouragement and cause for further passion in the other.
Into this mix, author Jonathan Clatworthy offers a different alternative: “to reject...
Goddess and God in the World
Conversations in Embodied Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Goddess and God in the World, leading theologians Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow propose a new method for thinking about theological questions: embodied theology rooted in experience and tested in dialogue. Their theological conversation begins from the premise that the transcendent, omnipotent...
Comprehending Christian Zionism
Perspectives in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The question of the Christian Zionism—the religious and political support of the state of Israel—is fiercely debated within theology and the church, as well as in the wider political and social arenas. Examination of the issue is, however, highly relevant and crucial, as it cuts across a wide...
by Gordon D. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
Despite the fabled difficulties of traditional Christological terms, Kaufman seeks to re-envision the symbol of Jesus within the contemporary scientific worldview. Building on his notion of God as simply creativity, he here locates the meaning of Jesus’ salvific story within an evolving universe and a threatened planet.
The Aesthetics of Atheism
Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
To really understand God, you have to understand atheism.
Atheism and Christianity are often placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism...
The Mystery and Agency of God
Divine Being and Action in the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world and therefore accessible to creatures. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation on the one hand, and the immanent collapse of...
Body Parts
A Theological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Christians have traditionally claimed that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), but they have consistently defined that image in ways that exclude people from full humanity. The most well-known definition locates the image in the rational soul, which is constructed in such a way that...