Fortress Press: 773 books
The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For the living, death has a moral dimension. When we confront death and dying in our own lives and in the lives of others, we ask questions about the good, right, and fitting as they relate to our experiences of human mortality. When others die, the living are left with moral questions—questions...
The Crosses of Pompeii
Jesus-Devotion in a Vesuvian Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Through a twist of fate, the eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 CE also preserved a wealth of evidence about the town, buried for centuries in volcanic ash. Since the town’s excavations in the eighteenth century, archaeologists have disputed the evidence that might attest the presence of Christians...
by Frank C. Senn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Its chapters cover the theology of worship, the historical development of Eucharist and the Prayer Offices, the lectionary...
Caring Liturgies
The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of...
Treatise on Good Works
Luther Study Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Luther’s transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation. In 1520, with his Wittenberg congregation in mind, Luther set out to clarify the biblical foundation of good works. In doing so he recast the very definitions of ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ both for his own generation and ours.
God and Cosmology
William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The question of God and cosmology is far from abstract. In fact, the subject raises the deepest questions of human existence: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Or, to put it more personally, “Why am I here?”
,P>Structured as a debate, the 2014 Greer-Heard Forum focused...
Wide Welcome
How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
While most churches offer ‘new member classes’ and genuinely seek to welcome visitors, too often the end result is a rush to assimilate the newcomer into formal membership and all of the invitations to participation in committees, choirs, or fellowship groups that go along with it.
In Wide...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus
Lord, Liar, Lunatic, Or Awesome?
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Christology is crazy. It’s rather absurd to identify a first-century homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book, Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the doctrine of Christ, the questions that drove christological innovations through church...
Introduction to World Religions
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A leading textbook for world religion, this new edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad...
by Gary Yamasaki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Gary Yamasaki explores how the visual art of filmmaking works to establish perspective and point of view to guide the viewer into a film’s story. Biblical story is also shaped by perspectives that frame a point of view. The insights gained from studying the art of filmmaking can help students increase their understanding of biblical narratives.
"After Ten Years"
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
How does one read the signs of the times? What does it mean to resist? How do we engage faithfully in struggle? Dietrich Bonhoeffer has achieved iconic status as one who epitomizes what it means to struggle and resist tyranny and fascism and how one acts in faithful witness as a religious and political...
Joy and Human Flourishing
Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Joy is crucial to human life and central to God’s relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives! This collection remedies this situation by considering the import of joy on human flourishing. These essays—written by experts...
by N. T. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This companion volume to N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Pauline Perspectives is essential reading for all with a serious interest in Paul, the interpretation of his letters, his appropriation by subsequent thinkers, and his continuing significance today. In the course of this...
Principalities in Particular
A Practical Theology of the Powers That Be
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
If the 1960s were a watershed in American politics, they were no less formative a period in political theology, as figures like Jacques Ellul, Karl Barth, Walter Wink, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, and William Stringfellow shed new light on the biblical language of "the powers." In these essays,...