Fortress Academic: 46 books
Cast Out of the Covenant
Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel’s exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:44) who persecuted Christ and his followers?
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by Kit Barker, Dale Campbell, David P. Gushee
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Forgiveness is at the heart of the Christian Gospel. It goes hand in hand with love, mercy, and grace, the fundamental theological virtues. However, forgiveness is easier to define than it is to embody. This unique collection of essays brings together theologians, ethicists, and ministry practitioners...
In Tongues of Mortals and Angels
A Deconstructive Theology of God-Talk in Acts and Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Through close textual engagement, theological exposition, ethical reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this book presents a constructive theology of divine speech in the Acts of the Apostles and 1 Corinthians in critical conversation with contemporary issues of sociopolitical, ecclesial,...
Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation
Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s Aeneid by adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical Greek poetry, especially Homer’s...
by Christopher Cimorelli, Colby Dickinson, Onoriode Ekeh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
This book blends historical, theological, and philosophical inquiries into what “modernity” means with the aim of showing how Newman can analyze, critique, and explain fruitful ways forward within a diverse range of subjects. First, it surveys historical and theological topics such as how Newman...
Putting God on the Map
Theology and Conceptual Mapping
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Since the middle of the last century, the emergence and development of fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolutionary science, cognitive linguistics, and neuroscience have led to a greater understanding of the ways in which humans think. One of the major discoveries involves what researchers...
Being Subordinate Men
Paul's Rhetoric of Gender and Power in 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul’s use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians. By elevating femininity and misperforming masculinity, Paul consistently undermines first century Roman norms of masculinity. Such norms of masculinity would have allowed...
Schleiermacher
The Psychology of Christian Faith and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This volume illuminates why Friedrich Schleiermacher is hailed as the father of modern theology. Terrence Tice generates a dialogue between Schleiermacher, readers, and himself by examining one of Schleiermacher’s Christmas sermons and commenting on the relationship between God, the human condition,...
Theology as Doxology and Dialogue
The Essential Writings of Nikos Nissiotis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Nikos Nissiotis (1924-1986) was one of the foremost and formative intellectuals of the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century. As professor of philosophy and psychology of religion at the University of Athens, director of the Bossey Institute, and Chairman of the Faith and Order Commission of...
by Graham J. Adams, Rogelio Dario Barolin, Nancy Cardoso Pereira
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it...
by Stephen Bagby
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Sin in Origen’s Commentary on Romans examines Origen as a critical third century voice seeking to articulate a cogent doctrine of sin, and presents his magisterial Commentary on Romans as a unique window to understanding his mature thought on the subject. It argues that Origen’s teaching on original...
Deep Mysteries
God, Christ and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This study explores the way in which, by way of the Christian mysteries, divine action impacts human life. The triune God acts in Jesus Christ by means of historical events whose effects transcend time and which are mediated through their celebration in memorial and worship. Drawing on both Evangelical...
The Storied Self
A Narrative Approach to the Spiritual Care of the Aged
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
We are multistoried; each story contributing to who we are – the storied self. A number of undeveloped stories are identified in this book. This includes the hidden story before language. Others include the lazy story, the trauma story, the messy story, the body story, the problem story and the...
Miracles and the Kingdom of God
Christology and Social Identity in Mark and Q
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In the last decade or so, scholarship on the miracles of Jesus has shifted from reconstructions of the historical Jesus to the questions of why and to what end early Jesus-followers told stories about miracles. Myrick Shinall contends that Mark and Q contain two distinct ways of remembering Jesus’s...