Fortress Press: 773 books
Judaism
Practice and Belief, 63 BCE-66 CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this now-classic work, E. P. Sanders argued against prevailing views regarding the Judaism of the Second Temple period, for example, that the Pharisees dominated Jewish Palestine or that the Mishnah offers a description of general practice. In contrast, Sanders carefully shows that what was important...
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Life Together gathers Bonhoeffer’s 1938 reflections on the character of Christian...
Soundings in the Religion of Jesus
Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out its weighty and often complex consequences for contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue. Soundings in the Religion of Jesus contextualizes Jesus and the writings...
Fierce
Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Women in the Bible—some of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a man's story—as victims or tempters—nor as morality archetypes, teaching us to...
On the Mystery
Discerning Divinity In Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Keller offers this brief and unconventional introduction to theological thinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller takes up theology itself as a quest for religious authenticity.
Through a marvelous combination of brilliant...
Outside the Lines
How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
God's love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other.
Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian minister. And she's queer. As she became aware of her queer sexuality, Mihee wondered what that meant for her spirituality. But instead of pushing her away from God,...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Being Human
Becoming the Best Bag of Bones You Can Be
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This Homebrewed Christianity Guide explores how Christian theology can address our rapidly changing paradigms of human existence. Donna Bowman argues that theology can contribute to our knowledge of the human self as gained through the sciences, that a theological perspective on humanity is useful...
Future Faith
Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
In Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity, author Wesley Granberg-Michaelson provides a lucid view of how the top ten winds of change blowing through global Christian faith are reshaping the practice of Christianity today. He is uniquely qualified to identify and interpret...
Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God
Toward an Evangelical Theology of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God aims to offer a retrieval of Edwards’s theology of participation for contemporary evangelical theology. It critically expounds and elucidates the concept of participation in God, or theosis, in Edwards’s Trinitarian theology as it relates to around three unions:...
Reviving Old Scratch
Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The devil has fallen on hard times. Surveys say that even the majority of Christians doubt Satan’s existence. Burdened by doubts, skeptical believers find themselves divorced from Jesus’ dramatic confrontation with Satan in the Gospels and from the struggle that galvanized the early church.
In...
The Freedom of a Christian, 1520
The Annotated Luther
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Timothy J. Wengert skillfully provides a clear understanding of the historical context from which the treatise The Freedom of a Christian and his accompanying Letter to Pope Leo X arose. As controvery concerning his writings grew, Luther was instructed to write a reconciliation-minded letter to Pope...
Irenaeus
Life, Scripture, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politician–no account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus of Lyons. Here a team of international scholars examine aspects of the saint’s life, historical context, engagement with scripture, and his ecclesiastical and theological legacy for succeeding generations.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments. It not only offers all of Luther's most influential, noted, and important writings in the modern translations but also includes excerpts of his sermons and letters that shed light...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit
Hand-Raisers, Han, and the Holy Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
It is time for the Holy Spirit to get its own street cred! There shall be no more third-wheeling the ever-present, life-sustaining, and empowering member of the Trinity. In this guide to the Spirit, Kim is putting the Holy Ghost back where it belongs; after all, the Spirit gave birth to the church...