Fortress Press: 773 books
Limping But Blessed
Wrestling with God after the Death of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
After the unexpected death of his three-year-old son, Jason Jones went on a long, painful journey to make sense of how God could let this happen to his family. He struggled intensely with his faith after everything he thought about God disintegrated on June 12, 2011.
At some point in our lives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families, psychiatrists and pastoral theologians come together in an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort to ensure accuracy of information concerning the medical dimensions of mental illness, interpret these illnesses from a faith perspective,...
Bitten by a Camel
Leaving Church, Finding God
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Kent Dobson climbed Mount Sinai in search of the God who had eluded him.
Instead he got bitten by a camel.
Dobson was climbing the ladder of Christianity, too: a worship leader, teacher, and ultimately senior pastor of one of the largest and most prominent churches in America. But he...
The Annotated Luther
Pastoral Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luther’s writings related to pastoral work. Luther’s famous Invocavit Sermons and other selected sermons show a forthright and lively preacher. Hymn texts reveal Luther’s grasp of hymnody as a tool for conveying and expressing faith....
Gift and Promise
The Augsburg Confession and the Heart of Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Gift and Promise shows that the theology of the Augsburg Confession is as much a gift to the world today as it was when first presented in 1530. Building on a book started by Ed Schroeder (three chapters are presented in the first part), nine of his students present the theology of the Augsburg Confession...
Deviant Calvinism
Broadening Reformed Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Deviant Calvinism seeks to show that the Reformed tradition is much broader and more variegated than is often thought. Crisp’s work focuses on a cluster of theological issues concerning the scope of salvation and shows that there are important ways in which current theological discussion of these...
Introduction to the History of Christianity
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Combining the accuracy and readability of the first edition of this highly acclaimed text, Dowley has enhanced the second edition with new contributions from Pheme Perkins on “The Thought-World of Early Christianity” and Richard Burridge on “Jesus and the Gospels” as well as updated and revised...
by Michele Saracino
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Reinhold Niebuhr argued that one of the fundamental challenges to human existence is the anxiety caused by our desire to be perfect and godlike while knowing we are limited and mortal. This book explores how human adornment practices negotiate anxieties about our finitude. Through our clothing, we...
Blessed are the Consumers
Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In doing so, she has influenced an entire generation, and empowered countless people in their efforts to put religion in the service of meeting human...
Jesus Victory of God V2
Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1997
In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it?
Wright begins by showing how the questions posed by Albert Schweitzer a century ago remain central today. Then he sketches a profile of Jesus in...
Resurrection Son of God V3
Christian Origins and the Question of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
This book, third in Wright's series Christian Origins and the Question of God, sketches a map of ancient beliefs about life after death, in both the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. It then highlights the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum,...
New Testament People God V1
Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
This first volume in the series Christian Origins and the Question of God provides a historical, theological, and literary study of first-century Judaism and Christianity. Wright offers a preliminary discussion of the meaning of the word god within those cultures, as he explores the ways in which...
Effective Social Learning
A Collaborative, Globally-Networked Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The ground of higher education is shifting, but learning ecosystems around the world have much more space than MOOCs and trendy online platforms can fill, and Loewen shows how professors have an indisputable pedagogical edge that gives them a crucial role to play in higher education. By adopting the...
by Holly J. Inglis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Despite the introduction of new technologies for classrooms, many seminary courses still utilize primarily auditory methods to convey content. Course outcomes may include opportunities for learners to demonstrate knowledge and skills gained but may not include opportunities for learners to begin to...