Fortress Press: 773 books
Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis
Political Exegesis for a New Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
We live in an age in which economic, ecological, and political crises are not the exception, but the rule. The Cold War polarities that shaped an earlier “political exegesis” have been replaced; Bruce Worthington argues that increasingly, crisis is the engine of a global “turbo-capitalism.”...
Jesus Loves You and Evolution Is True
Why Youth Ministry Needs Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Science is not a danger to the faith of Christian youth. In fact, Sara Sybesma Tolsma, an award-winning scientist, and Jason Lief, a leading practical theologian, argue that youth ministry needs science to help young people explore their relationship to God and engage their world faithfully.
Jesus...
We the People
Israel and the Catholicity of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
We the People exposits John Howard Yoder’s account of peoplehood and develops an appreciative revision of it that considers carefully and exegetically the politics of Jesus in relation to the people of Israel. This revision assesses Yoder’s and others’ historical accounts of “the parting of...
A Free Corrector
Colin Gunton and the Legacy of Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A Free Corrector evaluates Colin Gunton’s controversial treatment of Augustine’s theological legacy.
While others have critiqued Gunton’s negative reading of Augustine, McNall goes further in addressing Gunton’s argument regarding Augustine’s “afterlife” (that is, the appropriation...
by Karl Allen Kuhn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
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...
Apocalypses in Context
Apocalyptic Current through History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture, in politics, and in various religious traditions. Academic interest in apocalypticism is flourishing; indeed, the study of both ancient and contemporary apocalyptic phenomena has long been a focus of attention in scholarly research...
Repentace at Qumran
The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Normally, when the belief system of the community is examined, “repentance” is usually taken for granted or relegated to a peripheral position....
They Don't Come with Instructions
Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
In They Don't Come with Instructions, Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers wise companionship for the journey with a developmentally challenged child.
The mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, Holt-Woehl recognizes that parenting is never easy. Challenges abound as parents help children grow up...
The Last Blues Preacher
Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith that Woke the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Born in 1925 into a life of sharecropping in Brownsville, Tennessee, Clay Evans was desperate to escape life working for the descendants of plantation owners. At night, he listened to jazz musicians like Cab Calloway and Guy Lombardo on the radio and imagined one day singing on a secular stage. But...
Unity as Prophetic Witness
W. A. Visser 't Hooft and the Shaping of Ecumenical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Visser 't Hooft and the Shaping of Ecumenical Theology
Visser 't Hooft is, perhaps, the most distinguished figure in the modern ecumenical movement, emerging in the postwar decades as a pivotal figure. Under his leadership, the World Council of Churches was officially constituted in 1948 by...
Wrestling with God in Context
Revisiting the Theology and Social Vision of Shoki Coe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Shoki Coe was among the first to speak of "contextualization" in theology. Coe argued that theology is not a reiteration of past formulas or doctrines but a response to the self-disclosing initiative of the living God in history and human experience. Yet he remains little known outside his...
When Trauma Wounds
Pathways to Healing and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
How to heal from trauma and restore laughter, love, and faith
When trauma wounds, victims are thrown into unexpected darkness and experience unfamiliar symptoms. Some trauma survivors draw upon a lifelong faith in God; others find themselves in a wilderness devoid of spiritual grounding. The...
by Mark D. Tranvik
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
One of the hallmarks of Luther’s theology was its concern for daily life. In the midst of debates about justification and salvation, church authority, and the Lord’s Supper, he bore a deep concern for daily Christian life.
In this refreshing book, Mark D. Tranvik looks at the importance...
Making Love with Scripture
Why the Bible Doesn't Mean How You Think It Means
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Nothing has been more contentious in the history of Christianity than the meaning of the Bible, and that debate continues today. Arguments over scripture have divided denominations, churches, and families, and these squabbles have led many to abandon the faith altogether. Jacob D. Myers, a rising...