Fortress Press: 773 books
by Demetrios E. Tonias
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Demetrios Tonias’ Abraham in the Works of John Chrysostom is the first, comprehensive examination of John Chrysostom’s view of the patriarch Abraham. By analyzing the full range of references to Abraham in Chrysostom’s work, Tonias reveals the ways in which Chrysostom used Abraham as a model of philosophical and Christian virtue, familial devotion, philanthropy, and obedient faith.
A Public God
Natural Theology Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversial—it is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics, while it is, simultaneously, strongly contested by some...
Light from Light
Cosmology and the Theology of the Logos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Cosmology and theology share a long held relationship with one another, explaining as they do the constitution of the world and the interaction of forces. The author explores the history of this relationship, from ancient pre-scientific and theological explanations through to contemporary science...
No Rising Tide
Theology, Economics, And The Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Economics has always had a moral dimension; even free-market mascot Adam Smith was a Christian minister. Yet recent events have renewed and recast theological reflection on the economy as the gospel of prosperity succumbs to large-scale economic crisis. In that light Joerg Rieger explores the many...
Love in a Time of Climate Change
Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation. This book creatively adapts John Wesley's theological method by using scripture, tradition, reason,...
The Essential Forde
Distinguishing Law and Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
No twentieth-century American understood Luther's law-gospel distinction better than Gerhard O. Forde, who was professor of theology at Luther Theological Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Because Forde kept this Lutheran distinction razor sharp, his theological writings are an essential inheritance...
The Preached God
Proclamation in Word and Sacrament
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.
Remembering the Reformation
Martin Luther and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial...
A Documentary History of Lutheranism, Volumes 1 and 2
Volume 1: From the Reformation to Pietism Volume 2: From the Enlightenment to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice. Covering not only theology but also church life, popular piety, and influential historical...
The Entangled Trinity
Quantum Physics and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Doctrine of the Trinity is an exercise in wonder. It is drawn from the wonder of our own existence and the diverse experiences of the divine encountered by the early Christian community. From the earliest days of Christianity, theologians of the church have drawn upon the most sophisticated language...
Fullness Received and Returned
Trinity and Participation in Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Seng-Kong Tan argues that human participation in the divine —a classical theological axiom most notably associated with the Eastern Orthodox tradition—is a central theme in the theology of Jonathan Edwards. This notion, Tan contends, is a defining motif for the entire systematic sweep of Edwards’...
Theology in the Flesh
How Embodiment and Culture Shape the Way We Think about Truth, Morality, and God
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Metaphors and other mental tools are used to reason (not just speak) about God, salvation, truth, and morality. Figurative language structures our theological and moral reasoning in powerful ways. This book uses an approach known as cognitive linguistics to explore the incredibly rich ways our conceptual...
Everyday God
The Spirit of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The best-selling writer Paula Gooder continues her exploration of the Christian year, with its different seasons and moods and the varying messages they convey. Here, she explores the longest period of the liturgical year, ordinary time—thirty-three weeks where no great dramas occur. We live in...
Hope in Action
Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This volume contends against a major lacuna in the story of eschatology in the twentieth century by offering a historical and comparative analysis of Edward Schillebeeckx’s prophetic eschatology and Johann Baptist Metz’s apocalyptic eschatology with the goal of identifying relative advantages...