Fortress Press: 773 books
Soundings in Cultural Criticism
Perspectives and Methods in Culture, Power, and Identity in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A number of disciplines aligned under “cultural criticism” have changed the shape of contemporary biblical studies not only by offering new methods but by questioning old goals and proposing new ones. Soundings in Cultural Criticism offers a collection of succinct essays in these fields by some...
By the Rivers of Babylon
Blueprint for a Church in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The language of exile, focused with theological and biblical narratives and coupled with depictions of real-life exilic communities, can equip church leaders as agents in the creation of new communities.
Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission...
Shalom Church
The Body Of Christ As Ministering Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Craig Nessan’s important new work retrieves biblical metaphors of the body of Christ and, following Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sees church today as “Christ existing as community.” To theological probing Nessan then adds contextual analysis and describes the four chief imperatives that mark Christ’s...
Ethics
A Liberative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups....
Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Toward a Comparative Black Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest in four non-Christian religious movements. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews--and embellished with...
by Howard W. Stone, James O. Duke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For over fifteen years, How to Think Theologically has served as the ideal primer on the work of theology for students at all levels of study. Stone and Duke contend that theology is not an optional, esoteric discipline, but one that every Christian person is called to do, and thus they welcome everyone...
Transforming Christian Theology
For Church And Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
This compact volume offers a way for Christians to reflect deeply on how best to conceive Christian identity, commitment, and discipleship in today’s challenged, globalized, pluralistic scene. This volume seeks to capture and articulate the ferment in grassroots North American Christianity today...
The Crucifixion of the Warrior God
Volumes 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Renowned pastor-theologian Gregory A. Boyd proposes a revolutionary way to read the Bible in this epic but accessible study. His "cruciform hermeneutic" stands as a challenge to the field of biblical studies and to all thoughtful Christians.
A dramatic tension confronts every Christian...
Practicing Our Faith:
A Way of Life for a Searching People
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Twelve time-honored Christian practices that will help us, and the world, to flourish
Practicing Our Faith offers help to Christians who are asking how our faith can help us discern what we might do and who we might become.
How can we live faithfully and with integrity in a world where...
Walter Wink
Collected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Walter Wink's writing has been described as brilliant, provocative, passionate, and innovative. His skills in critical scholarship were matched by an engaging and honest style that make his work a must read for twenty-first century theologians and all who seek deeper understanding at the intersection of Bible, theology, social ethics, and more.
Constructive Theology
A Contemporary Approach To Classical Themes, With Cd-Rom
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Coordinated by Serene Jones of Yale Divinity School and Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University, fifty of North America's top teaching theologians (members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology) have devised a text that allows students to experience the deeper point of theological questions,...
Sallie McFague
Collected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today’s world. She calls Christians to new feeling, new acting, and new thinking.
Toward a Better Worldliness
Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation inspired profound social, economic, and ecclesial transformations. But impact does the Protestant tradition have today? And what might it have? This volume addresses such questions, focusing on the economic and ecological implications of the Protestant...
The End Is Not Yet
Standing Firm in Apocalyptic Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The title of this book comes from Matthew‘s Gospel: "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet. . . . There will be famines and earthquakes in various places: all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs."...