Fortress Academic: 46 books
Speaking Together and with God
Liturgy and Communicative Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Ours is a time of unprecedented pessimism regarding the possibility of achieving consensus around moral issues. Christian liturgical practices, which are grounded in a communicative economy of love and mercy, contain wisdom that might be of significant help. What difference might it make if we confessed...
Bridges in New Testament Interpretation
Interdisciplinary Advances
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The field of New Testament studies often appears splintered into widely different specializations and narrowly defined research projects. Nevertheless, some of the most important insights have come about when curious men and women have defied disciplinary boundaries and drawn on other fields of knowledge...
The Nations in the Divine Economy
Paul’s Covenantal Hermeneutics and Participation in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Core to Paul's gospel is the relationship between Israel and the Nations in light of the coming of Christ. But historic Christianity, in claiming to be a new Israel, and in not recognising the purpose of God in Christ for Jews and the nations, has ignored its Jewish roots, the scriptures of Israel,...
by Harry H. Singleton III
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Harry H. Singleton is concerned in this work with the disparate ways blacks and whites have experienced American history and subsequently the way they have fashioned God’s communication to humans, formerly referred to as revelation. This book makes the case that while white Christian leaders have...
The People's Faith
The Liturgy of the Faithful in Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Works of liturgical theology tend to be produced by experts who draw from the sources and explain the meaning of the liturgy to the lay people. When such explanations are firmly grounded in the sources, the academy accepts and celebrates them as genuine works of liturgical theology. Liturgical theology...
by Stephan Herzberg, Sigrid Müller, Nenad Polgar
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
One of the most sweeping, categorical, and absolute phrases that has ever been employed by the hierarchical teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church refers to a concept called ‘intrinsic evil’. In short, intrinsic evil is invoked to describe certain kinds of human acts that can never be...
by Roland Boer, Alan H. Cadwallader, James G. Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent...
by Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the power structures and power relations of...
Augustinian and Ecclesial Christian Ethics
On Loving Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
What is the relationship between the command to love one’s enemies and the use of violence and/or other coercive political means? This work examines this question by comparing and contrasting two important contemporary approaches to Christian ethics, neoAugustinian and the ecclesial or neoAnabaptist....
All God's Creatures
A Theology of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The predominant “stewardship model” of creation is the result of an intentional effort to correct approaches that reinforce human sovereignty and the resulting environmental degradation. However, as All God’s Creatures argues, the stewardship model actually does not offer a correction but rather...
The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith
Interreligious Reflections on Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
The Meaning of My Neighbor’s Faith addresses two of the most critical challenges of our time: immigration and religious diversity. The diverse group of contributors, representing a variety of religious traditions, disciplines, and methodologies, explore “the meaning of my neighbor’s faith”...
Between Being and Time
From Ontology to Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book explores the relationship between being and time —between ontology and history— in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this multifaceted thematic vis-à-vis a wide variety of sources: from patristics (Maximus the Confessor,...
To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often
The Development of John Henry Newman's Ecclesiological Outlook, 1845–1877
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This study approaches John Henry Newman’s writings on the church from a fresh perspective by examining the development of Newman’s ecclesiological outlook over time. It demonstrates that it can be misleading to refer to Newman’s “Catholic ecclesiology” (singular), because such an approach...
Reading Phinehas, Watching Slashers
Horror Theory and Numbers 25
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The tale of the “zeal” of Phineas, expressed when he killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex and thus stopped a “plague” of consorting with idolatrous neighbors in the Israelite camp (Numbers 25), has long attracted both interest and revulsion. Scholars have sought to defend...