Fortress Press: 773 books
by Walter Wink
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In this magnificent autobiography, Walter Wink, one of the most influential Christian intellectuals of our time, offers insight and perspective on his life and work-always through the lens of Jesus. From his brilliant and provocative theological writings, to his heartfelt pastoral work, to his passionate...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Matthew sheds new light from new perspectives on themes in the Gospel including community; land, labor, and Empire; children, parents, and families;...
by Paula Gooder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Journey to the Empty Tomb is from best-selling author Paula Gooder that opens up the best of biblical scholarship. It focuses on the events leading up to the first Easter—the Gospel accounts of the death and resurrection of Jesus that are at the very heart of the Christian faith. Beginning with...
by Amy Kalmanofsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible’s grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing...
Beyond Apathy
A Theology for Bystanders
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Theological conversations about violence have typically framed the discussion in terms of victim and perpetrator. Such work, while important, only addresses part of the problem. Comprehensive theological and pastoral responses to violence must also address the role of collective passivity in...
Wind Sun Soil Spirit
Biblical Ethics and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Carol Robb brings an ecological ethics in theological perspective, and it integrates economic theory, environmental policy, and most distinctively New Testament studies. Alongside deliberation on scenarios for the future in light of climate change and assessing criteria for ethical policy in this...
Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1960s
Christian Realism for a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The Civil Rights Movement. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The assassination of a president and a senator, both from the same family. Praise turns into protest; hope into disenchantment, as democracy's new day goes up in flames. The 1960's was an era born in hope and ends in deep conflict.
During...
Hearing with the Heart
A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Only through learning to hear with our hearts tuned closely to God can we discern how we should find our way through the crowded and confusing thickets of our lives. In Hearing with the Heart, popular writer and retreat leader Debra K. Farrington leads you through a gentle process for discovering...
Third Article Theology
A Pneumatiological Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Third Article Theology (TAT) is the name given to a new movement in constructive theology utilizing a distinctly pneumatological approach to dogmatics. Trinitarian in its foundation, pneumatological in its impetus, and comprehensive in its scope, TAT specifies both a method and a theology. Thinking...
Mediating Faith
Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The church struggles with media. Whether it is a denomination negotiating the 24 hour news cycle or a church evaluating how Facebook or online games are influencing the youth group, media is raising questions and placing demands on communities of faith in ways that could not have been imagined just...
Jobs Lost, Faith Found
A Spiritual Resource for the Unemployed
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Companionship and strategies for job seekers
Millions of people become unemployed every year, yet when job loss happens to us, we typically feel completely alone and often lost, ashamed, and afraid. No one knows how to comfort us when we lose our job. Unlike other griefs--when someone can say,...
Practices of Power
Revisiting the Principalities and Powers in the Pauline Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
How did the powers “work” in the Pauline community? Robert Ewusie Moses argues that Paul's conception of the powers is best understood through examining the practices he advocates for the early believers. In this detailed study, Moses shows that Paul believed certain practices guarded believers...
The Jewish Pseudepigrapha
An Introduction to the Literature of the Second Temple Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This is a concise yet illuminating guide to the Pseudepigrapha, the Jewish texts of the late Second Temple Period (circa 250 BCE–100 CE) that are not included in the Hebrew Bible or standard collections of the Apocrypha. Designed with the beginning student in mind, the book begins with chapters...
Liquid Scripture
The Bible in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The electronic Bible is here to stay‒‒packaged in software on personal computers, available as apps on tablets and cell phones. Increasingly, students look at glowing screens to consult the Bible in class, and congregants do the same in Bible study and worship. Jeffrey S. Siker asks, what difference...