Fortress Press: 773 books
Newman and Life in the Spirit
Theological Reflections on Spirituality for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
John Henry Newman is one of the most beloved and well-known British theologians, an instrumental figure in the Oxford Anglican movement of the nineteenth century and an infamous convert to Roman Catholicism. Through his tractates, essays, and monographs, Newman has been seen as a precursor and Father...
Seeing the Lord's Glory
Kyriocentric Visions and the Dilemma of Early Christology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The "dilemma of early Christology," Kaiser observes, is found in the early Christian claims to have "seen the Lord" and "beheld his glory"—expressions that in early Judaism would have pointed unequivocally to visions of Israel's God. The shift of those claims onto the...
Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods
The Archaeological Record from Cities, Towns, and Villages
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This second of two volumes on Galilee in the Late Second Temple and Mishnaic Periods focuses on the site excavations of towns and villages and what these excavations may tell us about the history of settlement in this important period. The important site at Sepphoris is treated with four short articles,...
Jesus of Korea
Savior of the People
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans—a country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years old—identify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines. Korea also boasts of having the largest church in the world; it also has the largest...
Christian Thought in America
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Christian Thought in America: A Brief History, Daniel Ott and Hannah Schell offer a short, accessible overview of the history of Christian thought in America, from the Puritans and other colonials to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Moving chronologically, each chapter addresses a historical...
by Scott Shauf
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions. The divine may be represented as a single deity (in Judaism) or many (in Greek and Roman...
Can Only One Religion Be True?
Paul Knitter and Harold Netland in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement on the subject of religious pluralism. The dialogue partners in the discussion are Paul F. Knitter, Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions, and Culture at Union Theological Seminary, and Harold A Netland, professor of Mission...
The Dionysian Gospel
The Fourth Gospel and Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
MacDonald observes that the Fourth Gospel sounds themes proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides's play The Bacchae. A divine figure, offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own;...
Trinitarian Grace and Participation
An Entry into the Theology of T. F. Torrance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Geordie W. Ziegler offers an exploration of the concept of “grace” in the thought of T. F. Torrance, and what it means for understanding the Christian life as “participation” in Christ’s ongoing humanity. He clarifies Torrance’s claim that Christ’s vicarious humanity intensifies, rather...
Viva Vox
Rediscovering the Sacramentality of the Word through the Annunciation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences. As a result, preaching has often become, at best, a form of instruction or, at worst, an incantation of sorts rather than an integral part of deepening our relationship...
Triune Eternality
God's Relationship to Time in the Theology of Karl Barth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The theology of Karl Barth is an important resource for theological reflection on the complicated problem of God’s relationship to time; yet much of what Barth says is difficult to unravel. These difficulties have led some to despair of adequately articulating Barth’s position, while leading others...
Reclaiming Participation
Christ as God's Life for All
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In an era that oscillates regularly between nihilism and the erosion of moral vision, on the one hand, and pseudo-gnostic myths of self-apotheosis on the other, the classical Christian claim of human participation in the divine as the story of the transformation of human life in its physical, moral,...
The Making of Modern English Theology
God and the Academy at Oxford, 1833-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Making of Modern English Theology is the first historical account of theology’s modern institutional origins in the United Kingdom. Having avoided the revolutionary upheaval experienced by continental institutions and free from any constitutional separation of church and state, English theologians...
Jesus and the Powers
Conflict, Covenant, And The Hope Of The Poor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Refuting a false dichotomy between “politics” and “religion” in Jesus’ world (and our own), Jesus and the Powers rediscovers Jesus’ response to the imperial power of his day. Richard A. Horsley describes the relevance of political realities under great empires for understanding the rise...