Fortress Press: 773 books
The Gift of Theology
The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Kathryn Tanner is undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary North American theologians. From landmark studies in systematic and constructive theology to economics, Tanner’s work is a contribution of inestimable value, hallmarked by its depth, precision, provocativeness, and grace. Unifying...
The Promise of Robert W. Jenson's Theology
Constructive Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and productive as Robert W. Jenson. A truly ecumenical thinker, Jenson consistently demonstrates the way that the church’s confession of the triune God of scripture restructures Christian thinking. Jenson’s work on the nature of theology...
Into the Far Country
Karl Barth and the Modern Subject
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment. By suggesting that Barth offers a form of theological resistance to the Enlightenment's construal of human subjectivity as “absolute,” this piece offers a way...
The Impassioned Life
Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The Impassioned Life argues that theology’s task today is to rethink the nature of the emotions and their relation to human reason. Such rethinking is necessary because the Christian tradition feels ambivalently about the emotions. Armed with a commitment to body-soul dualism, many writers have...
The Anointed Church
Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The phrase Third Article Theology is used in two senses: first, to characterize a methodological approach that intentionally starts with the Spirit, and second, as the theological understanding that emerges from this approach. Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized the approach of Third...
Paul within Judaism
Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In these chapters, a group of renowned international scholars seek to describe Paul and his work from “within Judaism,” rather than on the assumption, still current after thirty years of the “New Perspective,” that in practice Paul left behind aspects of Jewish living after his discovery of...
The Figure of Adam in Romans 5 and 1 Corinthians 15
The New Creation and its Ethical and Social Reconfigurations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Felipe Legarreta gives careful attention to patterns of exegesis in Second-Temple Judaism and identifies, for the first time, a number of motifs by which Jews drew ethical implications from the story of Adam and his expulsion from Eden. He then demonstrates that throughout the “Christological”...
Connecting Like Jesus
Practices for Healing, Teaching, and Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A hands-on resource for all Christians who want to communicate with more passion and power
Tony Campolo and Mary Albert Darling have teamed up to explore the dynamic connection that occurs when spirituality/spiritual practices are combined with effective communication practices. Churches and...
We Are Who We Think We Were
Christian History and Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern post-structuralist position of historian Elizabeth Clark, Conley calls ethicists to learn to read for the gaps, silences,...
The Paradox of Church and World
Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“Ultimately,” or so H. Richard Niebuhr wrote as early as 1929, “the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world, it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world, it becomes indistinguishable from the world...
by Douglas E. Oakman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Amid competing portrayals of the "cynic Jesus," the "peasant Jesus," and the "apocalyptic Jesus," the "political Jesus" remains a marginal figure. Douglas E. Oakman argues that advances in our social-scientific understanding of the political economy of Roman...
Biblical Theology of OT and NT
Theological Reflection of the Christian Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child's lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past generation. Childs rejects any approaches...
Judgment According to Works in Romans
The Meaning and Function of Divine Judgment in Paul's Most Important Letter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Giving careful exegetical attention to Paul’s letter to the Romans, Kevin W. McFadden shows that Paul wrote the letter to remind Roman Christians of his gospel because of his vocation as apostle to the Gentiles. The letter simultaneously demonstrates the guilt of the world and calls Paul’s audience...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
N. T. Wright’s magnum opus Paul and the Faithfulness of God is a landmark study on the history and thought of the apostle Paul. This volume brings together a stellar group of international scholars to critically assess an array of issues in Wright’s work.