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Documents and Images for the Study of Paul
The world surrounding Paul and the assemblies comes vividly to life here. Documents and Images for the Study of Paul gathers representative texts illustrating...
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Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction
While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work...
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The Jewish Experience: An Introduction to Jewish History and Jewish Life
Steven Leonard Jacobs discusses his introductory textbook The Jewish Experience: Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. This is a story of...
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Approaches to Paul: A Student's Guide to Recent Scholarship
What distinguishes the "new perspective on Paul"—and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the...
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Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, Second Edition
An accessible, introductory text first published by Fortress Press in 1983, Her Story: Women in Christian History has sold over 30,000 copies of the first...
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Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels: Second Edition
The authors build on their earlier social-scientific works and enhance the highly successful commentary model they developed in their social-scientific...
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Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology
With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and...
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Pastoral Care Emergencies
David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...
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Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Volume 2
In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it? Wright...
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On the Origin of Christian Scripture: The Evolution of the New Testament Canon in the Second Century
Comparing the Canonical Edition to other second-century publications on Jesus, David Trobisch sees the New Testament as an enlarged revision of an older publication attributed to Marcion. This perspective provides new answers to the origin of the Johannine corpus, the synoptic parallels, and the authorship of the letters of Paul.
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Real World Faith
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.
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The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World
The Bible. Neither a rule book nor a manual. Neither theology nor simply anthology. The Bible is a beginning, but not an end. The Bible imagines what a peaceful world might look like and then depends upon its readers to realize that world.
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Psalms, Islam, and Shalom: A Common Heritage of Divine Songs for Muslim-Christian Friendship
The sacred text of the Psalms, along with musical tunes, provides a robust context for religious dialogue. This book proposes a creative strategy for building Muslim-Christian friendship by using the lyrical poetry of the Psalms translated into the vernacular and composed in culturally relevant music.
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The Bible and African Americans: A History in Six Readings
The Bible offered a language-world through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust. Vincent Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to history and how they helped shape a collective self-understanding. When their voices were taken away, the Bible offered a way to speak again.
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Freedom and Imagination: Trusting Christ in an Age of Bad Faith
Freedom and Imagination recovers faith as the theological heart of the human being's participation in the life of God, and imagination as faith's interpretive lens. Three areas of ministry and life are explored through the imagination of faith: biblical interpretation, proclamation, and Christian freedom.
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Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.
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Experiencing Scripture: The Five Senses in Biblical Interpretation
To recreate or envision life in biblical times it is essential to acknowledge that humanity in every time and place is constantly immersed in sensation and derives meaning from sensual experience. The biblical text not only hints at sensual impressions, but also indicates how the senses are valued for interpretation.
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Deconstructing Racism: A Path toward Lasting Change
Deconstructing Racism explores why change has been so difficult to come by and offers new paths toward lasting change through the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions. It speaks to people in both church and society who are or have been working to dismantle institutional and systemic racism.
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Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America
Kate Hanch conducts a careful reading of these 19th-century Black women preachers' narratives and their texts, both written and spoken, to make explicit their theology. Storied Witness calls attention to the essential lived witness of Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth.
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Confessing and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed as Script for the Christian Life
Confessing and Believing offers a faithful and compelling account of the Christian faith using the Apostles' Creed as a framework. In this book Trevor Hart helps readers, both within and outside the church, understand core Christian beliefs, and how these are related to one another and to the intellectual and cultural contexts of today.
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