Fortress Press: 773 books
Lutheran Handbook
A Field Guide to Church Stuff, Everyday Stuff, and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
The essential field guide for all things Lutheran. Confirmands – or anyone hiking the trails of life's adventures and challenges – will want to pack this handy illustrated field guide to Lutheran theology and culture. This enjoyable, easy-to-read, reliable, all-in-one collection helps you understand...
The Nonviolent Messiah
Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other reemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly...
Paul's Eschatological Anthropology
The Dynamics of Human Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this study, Sarah Harding examines Paul’s anthropology from the perspective of eschatology, concluding that the apostle’s view of humans is a function of his belief that the cosmos evolves through distinct aeons in progress toward its telos. Although scholars have frequently assumed that Paul’s...
The Executed God
The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylor’s award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of “Lockdown America” and a visionary statement of hope. It is also a call for action to Jesus followers to resist US imperial projects and power. Outlining a “theatrics of...
Preservation and Protest
Theological Foundations for an Eco-Eschatological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms...
The Power and Vulnerability of Love
A Theological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
What is it about human beings that makes us capable and even desirous of inflicting terrible suffering on others (and ourselves)? If human beings—not God—are the cause of evils such as extreme poverty, violence, and oppression, it is imperative that we probe the depths of the human heart to uncover...
Being Deified
Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. Deification is an explanatory force for the major categories of Christian theology: creation, fall, incarnation, theological anthropology, as well as the sacraments. Deification...
Innovation within Tradition
Joseph Ratzinger and Reading the Women of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Innovation within Tradition explores Joseph Ratzinger’s biblical interpretation of women and salvation history. Arguing that Ratzinger’s concept of a “female line in the Bible” brings the female characters of Scripture to the fore, Mary Frances McKenna shows how this illustrates his creative...
by Carl Braaten
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1984
Christian Dogmatics is a two-volume survey of loci of Christian doctrine, each treated extensively in terms of its biblical foundations, historical tradition, and contemporary significance. Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity of God, creation, sin, and Christology. Volume...
The Death of Race
Building a New Christianity in a Racial World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact. Much like the incarnation, it is a “word made flesh,” the confluence of various powers that allow some to organize and dominate the lives of others. In this way racism is a deeply theological problem, one...
Behind the Public Veil
The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin...
by Dyron B. Daughrity, Jesudas M. Athyal
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Each volume of the Understanding World Christianity series analyzes the state of Christianity from six different angles. The focus is always Christianity, but it is approached in an interdisciplinary manner—chronological, denominational, sociopolitical, geographical, biographical, and theological.
Short,...
Jeremiah
Pain And Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Kathleen O’Connor shows that the intense emotional language of Jeremiah documents a community’s effort to restore their collapsed social world. Both prophet and book provide language to articulate disaster; move self-understanding from delusional security to identity as survivors; constitute individuals as moral agents; and characterize God as suffering trauma along with the people.
The Prophetic Imagination
40th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A classic text in biblical theology--still relevant for today and tomorrow.
In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a theological and ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible. He finds there a...