Fortress Press: 773 books
by Mitzi J. Smith, Mark Allen Powell Powell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
p>Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed...
The Cross before Constantine
The Early Life of a Christian Symbol
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
This book brings together, for the first time, the relevant material evidence demonstrating Christian use of the cross prior to Constantine. Bruce W. Longenecker upends a longstanding consensus that the cross was not a Christian symbol until Constantine appropriated it to consolidate his power in...
Early Christianity in Pompeian Light
People, Texts, Situations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii’s treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., allows...
Stranger God
Meeting Jesus in Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When Richard Beck first led a Bible study at a maximum security prison, he went to meet God. His own faith was flagging, but Beck still believed the promise of Matthew 25, that when we visit the prisoner, we visit Jesus. And sure enough, God met him in prison.
With his signature combination of biblical...
Love Without Limits
Jesus' Radical Vision for Love with No Exceptions
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
The love of God crosses all boundaries. Every. Single. One.
Every day, millions of people lament the loss of civility, respect, and hope, and they wonder if it's possible to cultivate a love big enough to overthrow hate and heal our hurts. With courage, authenticity, and relevance, Jacqueline A. Bussie...
by Miguel A. De La de Torre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward an eschatological promise that, when looking back at history, makes sense of all Christian-led...
Luther and Liberation
A Latin American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
With the approach of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s inauguration of the Protestant Reformation and the burgeoning dialogue between Catholics and Lutherans opened under Pope Francis, this new edition of Walter Altmann’s Luther and Liberation is timely and relevant. Luther and Liberation...
Ways of the Word
Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose...
Carnal Knowledge of God
Embodied Love and the Movement for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Theologian, pastor, and seasoned activist Rebecca Voelkel offers a theological vision of embodied love, informed by her own experience, research, and pastoral and organizing work with gay, lesbian, transgender, and gender-queer persons. Voelkel lays out a theological vision interwoven with wisdom...
by Todd Hartch
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Christianity is a global religion! It's an obvious fact, but one often missed or ignored in too many books and conversations. In a world where Christianity is growing everywhere but the West, the Understanding World Christianity series offers a fresh, readable orientation to Christianity around the...
Christ Divided
Antiblackness as Corporate Vice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses "antiblackness supremacy" as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ. Antiblackness supremacy operates as a unique form of oppression:...
Deus providebit
Calvin, Schleiermacher, and Barth on the Providence of God
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This dissertation stages an intervention in Reformed readings of the doctrine of providence, particularly around Barth’s critical interpretation of the tradition stemming from Calvin and Schleiermacher, and provides a critical and constructive assessment of Barth’s contribution. The author argues...
The Holy One in Our Midst
An Essay on the Flesh of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ aims to defend the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticum—the doctrine that maintains the Son of God was not restricted to the flesh of Christ during the incarnation—by arguing that it is logically coherent, biblically warranted, catholically...
Radical Theology
An Essay on Faith and Theology in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Ingolf U. Dalferth is the Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He studied theology, philosophy, and linguistics in Tubingen, Edinburgh, Vienna, and Cambridge. His major areas of research and teaching century, ecumenical theology, and...