Fortress Press: 773 books
by Mark C. Mattes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The development of Martin Luther's thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West. But much of that scholarship has been so enthralled by certain later debates that it has practically ignored and even...
Theology and the Globalized Present
Feasting in the Future of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfigures time to the detriment of human flourishing, McDowell presents a re-imagined theological vision of eschatological memory and Eucharistic performance....
The Cross of Reality
Luther's Theologia Crucis and Bonhoeffer's Christology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer’s interpretation and use of Luther’s theology in shaping his Christology. In this essay, H. Gaylon Barker uses the “theology of the cross” as a key to understanding the characteristic elements that make up Bonhoeffer’s theology; he also shows...
Sin Boldly!
Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
When we discover we don't justify ourselves because God has justified us, we become free. What Sin Boldly! points to is the presence of the crucified and living Christ in the human soul, placed there by the Holy Spirit. And this becomes transformative.
Sin Boldly! provides an experiential analysis...
Faith and Reason
The Possibility of a Christian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The twentieth century witnessed considerable debate over the question of the possibility of a “Christian philosophy,” particularly in light of the revival of Thomism initiated by the papal encyclical Aeterni Patris. Two major figures of that revival were Etienne Gilson and Bernard Lonergan, both...
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies
Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious and philosophical constructs of the black body in U.S. society, examining racialized ideas about purity and...
Lutherans in America
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The story of Lutherans in America is one of mutual influence. From the first small groups of Lutherans to arrive in the colonies, to the large immigrations to the rich heartland of a growing nation, Lutherans have influenced, and been influenced by, America.
In this lively and engaging new...
The Augustinian Alternative
Religious Skepticism and the Search for a Liberal Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism. This claim is set in a scholarly context that is profoundly hostile to constructive theological readings of liberal culture. As a corrective...
by Adrian Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex. It is not that people willfully forsake a demanding sexual ethic for a more easygoing worldly one. It is that they often cannot see the point of its ‘demandingness.’”
Thus...
The Imposing Preacher
Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Black Public Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
As a distinguished pastor, educator, and public servant, Samuel DeWitt Proctor made it his mission to serve American life by fighting racism. In The Imposing Preacher, Adam Bond shows how Proctor, as the product of a prophetic black church tradition, a social gospel-laced liberal Protestantism, and...
Idols of Nations
Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers—Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke––read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith—who took the title of his Wealth...
Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics
Alternative Views on Christians and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
What is to be done about the damaging impact of economic activity on the environment? In recent years, there has been growing debate over this question. This book, by an economist, urges Christians to support strong governmental and intergovernmental action to improve the workings of existing global...
The Forgotten Books of the Bible
Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
You're probably missing some of the most interesting books of the Bible.
In the Jewish tradition, the five books known as "The Five Scrolls" perform a central liturgical function as the texts associated with each of the major holidays. The Song of Songs is read during Passover, Ruth...
Mapping Exile and Return
Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis...