Fortress Press: 773 books
Christian Economic Ethics
History and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
What does the history of Christian views of economic life mean for economic life in the twenty-first century? Here Daniel Finn reviews the insights provided by a large number of texts, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject...
by Robert W. Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This book is about faithful witnesses -- from the Reformation to South African apartheid to Bonhoeffer -- to the promise of Jesus Christ. Even in the midst of trials, these faithful followers have testified that the gospel is authority enough for the church's life and unity. Significantly, this is...
by Wanderley P. da Rosa, Raimundo Barreto, Ronaldo Cavalcante
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts....
Refocusing My Family
Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In 2012, at the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out to her family as gay. As the daughter of a Focus on the Family executive, telling this truth came at a high cost.
Refocusing My Family is Amber‘s journey from the suffocating expectations of Focus on the Family to the liberating...
The Honeycomb Scroll
Philipp Melanchthon at the Dawn of the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Long overshadowed by Luther and Calvin, Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) is one of the most important figures in the Protestant Reformation and had profound effect on Western church history. This book gives the most detailed English-language biographical treatment of Melanchthon to date, moving from...
by Philip Jacob Spener
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1964
This classic work, first published in 1675, inaugurated the movement in Germany called Pietism. In it a young pastor, born and raised during the devastating Thirty Years War, voiced a plea for reform of the church which made the author and his proposals famous. A lifelong friend of the philosopher...
The Annotated Luther
The Roots of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Volume 1 of The Annotated Luther series contains writings that defined the roots of reform set in motion by Martin Luther, beginning with the 95 Theses (1517) through The Freedom of a Christian (1520). Included are treatises, letters, and sermons written from 1517–1520, which set the framework for...
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
The Annotated Luther
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With great clarity and insight, James M. Estes illuminates Luther’s call to secular authorities to help with the reform of the church in this important 1520 treatise. Starting with the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, Luther’s appeals for reform had been addressed to the ecclesiastical hierarchy, whose...
Preaching at the Crossroads
How the World - and Our Preaching - is Changing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Postmodernism. Secularism. Pluralism. These are the words often used to describe the tumultuous changes that have affected our culture and our churches. But what do they really mean? More importantly, what challenges and opportunities do they provide today’s preachers? David Lose takes preachers...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times
Theology after You've Been Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
People still believe that Jesus is returning to earth . . . and soon! Like Jesus’ the first followers, millions of Christians hold fast to the idea that we are living in the last days, yet here we are, two thousand years later, still waiting. In The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue. The literature on the subject is substantial, and diverse. While efforts to exonerate Luther as “merely” a man of his times who “merely” perpetuated...
The Annotated Luther
Word and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Volume 2 of The Annotated Luther series contains a number of the writings categorized under the theme word and faith. Luther was particularly focused on what the word “does” in order to create and sustain faith. Writings in the volume range from the large core documents Bondage of the Will, Against...
Paulos Mar Gregorios
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Paulos Mar Greogorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches. The book deals with his thought in the areas of ecumenism, orthodox theology,...
What Is the Bible?
The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The patristic doctrine of Scripture is an understudied topic. Recent scholars, however, have shown considerable interest in patristic exegetical strategies and methods—from rhetoric and typology, to theory and method; far less attention, though, has been paid to the early Christian understanding...