Fortress Press: 773 books
by Tim Dowley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.
The Atlas of the European Reformations is newly built from the ground up. Featuring more than sixty brand new maps, graphics, and timelines, the atlas is a necessary companion to any study of the reformation...
Mark as Story
An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story. Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie have helped to pioneer our appreciation of the Gospels, and Mark in particular, as narratives originally created in an oral culture...
The Large Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther, 1529
The Annotated Luther
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With great detail, Kirsi I. Stjerna introduces and annotates Luther’s Large Catechism, which the reformer offered as a radical reorientation in the matters of theology and spirituality. After diagnosing what appeared to him as his church’s failures to provide proper spiritual care, Luther...
A Case for Character
Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Equipped with a rich heritage detailing the content of human character, it would seem that Christianity is ideally positioned to address a culture where morality and personal character are set adrift. Contemporary Lutheranism has struggled with the place of morality and character formation, concerns...
Rupturing Eschatology
Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction. Rupturing Eschatology is Eric Trozzo's constructive retrieval of Luther's theology of the cross for the purpose of establishing a contemporary Lutheran and "emerging"...
The Art of Empire
Christian Art in Its Imperial Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In recent years, art historians such as Johannes Deckers (Picturing the Bible, 2009) have argued for a significant transition in fourth- and fifth-century images of Jesus following the conversion of Constantine. Broadly speaking, they perceive the image of a peaceful, benevolent shepherd transformed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice. The books in the series make the wealth of early Christian thought available...
Resurrection of Jesus
Jhn Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2005
Two of today's most important and popular New Testament scholars, John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright, here air their very different understandings of the historical reality and theological meaning of Jesus' Resurrection. The book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between them and...
History of New Testament Research
From C.H. Dodd to Hans Dieter Betz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In this masterful volume—the culmination of his three-volume History of New Testament Research (vol. 1, From Deism to Tubingen, 1992;vol. 2, From Jonathan Edwards to Rudolf Bultmann, 2012)—William Baird continues his insightful, balanced, and accessible survey of the major developments in New...
Saving Karl Barth
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured....
The Sign of the Gospel
Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The theology of the sacraments is one of the most contested parts in Barth’s theology, none more so than the doctrine of baptism. Barth’s proposals on baptism have generated intense conversation and disagreement, not only on its application to Protestant and ecumenical theology but even on its...
Postmodernity and Univocity
A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Nearly twenty-five years ago, John Milbank inaugurated Radical Orthodoxy, one of the most significant and influential theological movements of the last two decades. In Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory, he constructed a sweeping theological genealogy of the origins of modernity and the emergence...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since the mid-twentieth century, apocalyptic thought has been championed as a central category for understanding the New Testament writings and the letters of Paul above all. But “apocalyptic” has meant different things to different scholars. Even the assertion of an “apocalyptic Paul” has...
Heaven Opens:
The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Adrienne von Speyr was one of the most important mystical theologians of the last century, heralded by figures like John Paul II and T.S. Eliot. However, her work has been eclipsed in many ways by her personal connection to Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Heaven Opens provides one of the...