Fortress Press: 773 books
The Bible as Political Artifact
On The Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Biblical studies and the teaching of biblical studies are clearly changing, though it is less clear what the changes mean and how we should evaluate them. In this book, Susanne Scholz engages some of the issues as she has encountered them in the field over the last twenty years. She casts a feminist,...
Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science
Youth Ministry in the Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Many things threaten the faith of youth today, but none more than science. The commitments of science and Christianity seem to be at odds—science makes truth claims based on experiments and proofs, while religion asks for belief and trust. But Andrew Root demonstrates that, in fact, the two are...
Reviving Christian Humanism
The New Conversation On Spirituality, Theology, And Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Browning argues that the time is right for religious intellectuals in conversation with the social sciences to reinvigorate the deep humanistic strands of the grand religions and enter into global interfaith dialogue on that basis. Concentrating on the Christian heritage, he draws on such diverse...
The God of Intimacy and Action
Reconnecting Ancient Spiritual Practices, Evangelism, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Acclaimed evangelical speaker and writer Tony Campolo teams up with spiritual director and teacher Mary Albert Darling to reveal some gems from the liturgical Christian tradition to Protestants who may be ready for a refreshing change. While steeped in their own evangelical tradition, the authors...
How to Keep Spiritual Jour Revised
A Guide To Journal Keeping For Inner Growth And Personal Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
This revised edition of a thorough guide offers steps for anyone interested in keeping a spiritual journal, from recommendations for notebooks to ways to work through common frustrations and writer's block. Ron Klug relies on his experience as a workshop leader, journal keeper, and author to create a book that is both helpful and wise.
Riddles of the Fourth Gospel
An Introduction To John
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Paul Anderson, a leading scholar of the Fourth Gospel, provides an introductory textbook, crafted for a semester course, which leads students through literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel’s most vexing puzzles. Traditional, historical-critical, and literary-critical...
Beyond Church Walls
Cultivating a Culture of Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Pastoral care has been traditionally understood as pastoral acts administered to individuals or small groups by an ordained or lay religious practitioner. As congregations in the twenty-first century begin to reclaim the missional nature of church, this view must be broadened to include care and concern...
Paul: Apostle to the Nations
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Who was Paul; what did he do, what did he write? Walter F. Taylor sets out to bring together a wealth of contemporary perspectives in a clear and accessible synthesis, bringing to bear on his subject the best of recent social-scientific and cultural-anthropological thinking on Paul. An appendix presents a clear summary of issues related to Paul’s thought on gender and sexuality.
Inscribing the Text
Sermons and Prayers of Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
This volume contains the most recent collection of Walter Brueggemann's sermons and prayers.
Prophetic Imagination
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2001
In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power with a new vision of freedom in the prophets. Here he traces the broad sweep from Exodus to Kings to...
Word that Redescribes the World
The Bible and Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encounters with the texts...
by Russell Pregeant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Bible can be hazardous to one’s health if it is read with faulty expectations. Writing with insight, compassion, and wit, Russell Pregeant shows that reading the Bible “without interpretation” is impossible; the right question is which assumptions are most appropriate to the Bible and our reasons for taking it up.
A New Kind of Christian
A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The Book That Launched a Movement
The first installment of Brian D. McLaren's trilogy recounts a lively and intimate conversation between fictional characters Pastor Dan Poole and his daughter's high-school science teacher, Neil Oliver. They reflect together about faith, doubt, reason, mission,...
"Without Ceasing to be a Christian"
A Catholic and Protestant Assess the Christological Contribution of Raimon Panikkar
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Since his death in 2010, there has been continuing and growing interest in the life, vision, and thought of the late Spanish-Indian mystical theologian Raimon Panikkar. This volume offers a descriptive and critical assessment of Panikkar‘s life and extensive writings about Christ. The chapters by...