Fortress Press

Academic

  • Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    M. Shawn Copeland (Author)

    M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

    $26.00

  • Faithful Teaching: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XII

    Faithful Teaching: Lutherans and Catholics in Dialogue XII

    Lowell G. Almen (Editor), Denis J. Madden (Editor)

    Faithful Teaching is the twelfth dialogue of the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue. It seeks greater mutual understanding of the two communions' respective processes of faithful teaching. In challenging times, the call to continue to preach and teach the gospel together resounds with new urgency.

    $24.00

  • The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading

    The Mystified Letter: How Medieval Theology Can Reenchant the Practice of Reading

    Craig Tichelkamp (Author)

    Reading has become a problem--not just of attention, comprehension, or illiteracy rates, but of politics, society, and religion. The Mystified Letter offers an alternative to this malaise: a theology of reading centered on mystical encounter. It retrieves medieval Christian reading culture to build a case for a mystical theology of literature.

    $34.00

  • Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance

    Courtney Bryant (Author)

    Erotic Defiance considers the sacred and transformative power of the flesh, investigating the ethical and theological dimensions of the erotic experiences of Black women and performances of Black womanhood. Bryant approaches the erotic as a divine energy that manifests love through the flesh and makes healing, resistance, and self-making possible.

    $29.00

  • Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality

    Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality

    Rachel Wheeler (Author)

    Rachel Wheeler offers compelling testimony for the value--and the life-giving power--of "rewilding." Drawing on the Bible, Christian spirituality, and environmental disciplines, Radical Kinship provides theoretical foundations and practical strategies for restoring the life-generating and life-sustaining norms in which we were created to dwell.

    $28.00

    Available September 24, 2024

  • Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations

    Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations

    Danielle Tumminio Hansen (Author)

    Rape survivors need words to recover and tell their stories. But the words available often fail to describe their experiences, which isolates and silences them, enables future perpetration, and lets rape remain unacknowledged. Tumminio Hansen offers fresh ways of speaking and listening that reframe how we can describe, discuss, and address rape.

    $34.00

    Available March 19, 2024

  • Israel: A Christian Grammar

    Israel: A Christian Grammar

    Paul J. Griffiths (Author)

    Israel: A Christian Grammar proposes and defends the theses that the church and the synagogue together constitute Israel; that each is irrevocably promised intimacy with the same God; and that the synagogue should be understood by the church to be more intimate with that God than she is herself.

    $28.00

  • Vast as the Sea: Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condition

    Vast as the Sea: Hebrew Poetry and the Human Condition

    Samuel Hildebrandt (Author)

    The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.

    $28.00

  • Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination: A Theological Biography

    Walter Brueggemann's Prophetic Imagination: A Theological Biography

    Conrad L. Kanagy (Author)

    Walter Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination emerged seemingly out of nowhere in 1978. Its appeal took even the author by surprise. But its message and relevance, and the enigmatic prophet from Missouri, were just what the American church needed. This book addresses the mystery of a prophetic breakthrough that remains relevant and necessary.

    $24.95

  • bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist

    bell hooks' Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist

    Nadra Nittle (Author)

    Widely heralded as a leading feminist scholar, bell hooks also identified as a Buddhist Christian who believed that love was the antidote to oppression. In bell hooks' Spiritual Vision, Nadra Nittle traces the spirituality in hooks' writings. The book shows hooks as a feminist and a believer who knit together her political and spiritual practices.

    $24.00

  • How to Think Theologically: Fourth Edition

    How to Think Theologically: Fourth Edition

    Howard W. Stone (Author), James O. Duke (Author)

    Decades of use and refinement have confirmed How to Think Theologically as a guide for theology students realizing their call to be theologians. Focusing not on thinkers or thoughts, but on thinking, Stone and Duke induct readers into habits of mind that allow understanding of all things social, cultural, and personal in relation to God.

    $22.00

  • American Heresy: The Roots and Reach of White Christian Nationalism

    American Heresy: The Roots and Reach of White Christian Nationalism

    John Fanestil (Author)

    American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism. Fanestil adeptly traces an early American story that reaches into our present with alarming immediacy.

    $24.00

  • Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 2: Independent and Indigenous

    Modern Chinese Theologies: Volume 2: Independent and Indigenous

    Chloë Starr (Editor)

    From the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in the mission-church landscape of the early twentieth century, to the Calvinist Reformed movement in the contemporary Protestant church, this volume presents a selection of new studies on the theology of the church in China, concentrating on independent and indigenous Chinese churches.

    $39.00

  • Befriending the North Wind: Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death

    Befriending the North Wind: Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death

    Robyn Boeré (Author)

    Befriending the North Wind is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death. It examines the dimensions of human meaning children reveal and the new horizons they open to us. It asserts that children can die a good death and that they can and should have a voice in their end-of-life care.

    $29.00

  • Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Good Book: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves

    Jill Hicks-Keeton (Author)

    Good Book shows how white evangelicals in the US make the Bible the "Good Book". As social norms change, evangelicals confront interpretive challenges as they render the Bible ever benevolent. Good Book shows the negotiations that Bible-benevolence projects demand, as evangelicals seek to maintain moral authority in a diverse religious landscape.

    $28.00

  • Renewing New Testament Christology

    Renewing New Testament Christology

    Leander E. Keck (Author), David Keck (Foreword by), Richard B. Hays (Afterword by)

    This book redefines "New Testament Christology" as content and as the discipline explaining that content. Behind this dual redefinition stands one conviction: instead of perpetuating the view of Christology as a theologically informed history of early ideas about Christ.

    $34.00

  • Real World Faith

    Real World Faith

    Walter Brueggemann (Author)

    Bodies, pain, suffering, hunger--and love. Politics, war, violence, hatred--and community. Walter Brueggemann, with wisdom and grace, weaves the story of our present time with God's good purposes. Real World Faith is a prophetic word.

    $24.95

  • Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency

    Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency

    Margaret D. Kamitsuka (Author)

    The afterlife is often a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. The historical church ignored the death of unborn beings and the precarity of pregnancy, focusing more on the soul than the body. A new approach to eschatology is needed that upholds emerging unborn life and the pregnant believer's moral agency.

    $28.00

  • Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church

    Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church

    Jackson Lashier (Author)

    Protestants should venerate the saints: this shocking claim is at the heart of Great Cloud of Witnesses. Readers will learn creative ways of reading Scripture, how important doctrines developed, and how to live like a monk, even with a job and a family. They will gain appreciation of the saints and saint veneration.

    $29.00

  • Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies in a Pluralistic World

    Everyday Wisdom: Interreligious Studies in a Pluralistic World

    Hans Gustafson (Author)

    Everyday Wisdom is an introduction for lived religion, interreligious studies, and interfaith engagement and leadership. Tying together the aims and learning objectives of interreligious-studies courses, the book proposes a framework for interreligious studies and interfaith leadership, aiming to be a core text in undergraduate and graduate study.

    $45.00

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