Fortress Press: 773 books
by David A. Fiensy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Each volume in the Insights series presents discoveries and insights into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses: how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how...
I Heart Francis
Letters to the Pope from an Unlikely Admirer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor. Veteran minister and social justice advocate Donna Schaper has become a fan of the pope, covering him for Religion Dispatches, traveling to see him speak, and taking up many of his...
Mission as Accompaniment
A Response to Mechanistic Dehumanization
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable components of a machine. This misconstruction of human value is a source and sustainer of overproduction, an excess of consumption, and the pursuit of unrestrained economic...
by Helen-Ann Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“What this book does aim to do is to encourage the asking of questions, knowing that it is not possible to obtain all the answers, allowing for an encounter with God in the spaces in between. . . . It is an approach modeled by the Wisdom tradition of the Old Testament, present in the New Testament,...
Encountering Jesus
Character Studies in the Gospel of John
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The last thirty years have seen an increased interest in the Bible as literature and story. Yet “character” appears to be neglected in both literary theory and narrative criticism. Indeed, there is not even agreement amongst scholars on how to approach, analyze and classify characters.
Applying...
A Study Companion to the Bible
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
From its very first pages, Jerry L. Sumney’s The Bible: An Introduction offers clear answers to the most basic questions that first-time students and curious inquirers bring to the Bible. Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses...
Power Surge
Six Marks Of Discipleship For A Changing Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Drawing on his experience at Prince of Peace, Foss makes the case for transforming congregations from a membership model to a discipleship model of church affiliation. The book begins with a careful analysis of recent patterns in church membership/demographics which argue for this paradigm shift....
Reviving the Congregation
Pastoral Leadership in a Changing Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Pastoral leadership has always been challenging, but clergy and parish leaders today face unprecedented challenges, many of which simply didn’t exist a generation ago. The questions of ministry and leadership in the church today range broadly across the financial and the managerial, the spiritual...
A House United
How the Church Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
By entering the culture wars, churchgoers in the United States have ushered the Left and the Right to even greater extremes. Battles over moral issues like abortion rights and homosexuality have now widened to include taxation and size of government, so that specific church affiliation has become...
Cancer is Funny
Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Jason Micheli, a young father, husband, and pastor, was diagnosed with a bone cancer so rare and deadly that his doctors didn’t classify it with one of the normal four stages—they simply called it “stage-serious.” As Micheli struggled with despair and faced his own mortality, he resolved that...
Cleansed Lepers, Cleansed Hearts
Purity and Healing in Luke-Acts
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Illnesses are perceived and understood differently across cultures and over time. Traditional interpretations of New Testament texts frame the affliction lepra (“leprosy”) as addressed either by ritual cleansing or miraculous healing. But as Pamela Shellberg shows, these interpretations are limited...
Isaiah Old and New
Exegesis, Intertextuality, and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Reading the Book of Isaiah in its original context is the crucial prerequisite for reading its citation and use in later interpretation, including the New Testament writings, argues Ben Witherington III. Here he offers pastors, teachers, and students an accessible commentary to Isaiah, as well as...
Christianity Made in India
From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context. It is set in the larger context of the exceptional growth of the church in the non-Western world during the twentieth century, which has been characterized by a diversity...
Beyond Maintenance to Mission
A Theology Of The Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Visionary yet practical, Nessan’s influential book makes a persuasive case for the centrality of mission in the life of the church. Nessan’s model of mission-driven leadership is strongly centered on the community of faith’s worship and draws unique connections between the worship life...