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The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives

Gale A. Yee (Editor)

This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part...

The Freedom of a Christian, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Timothy J. Wengert (Editor)

Timothy J. Wengert skillfully sheds light on Luther's popular treatise. As controversy concerning his writings grew, Luther wrote a reconciliation-minded letter to Pope Leo X (1475-1521). To this letter he appended a nonpolemical tract describing the heart of his beliefs, The Freedom of a Christian.

The Small Catechism, 1529: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Timothy J. Wengert (Author), Mary Jane Haemig (Editor)

Timothy J. Wengert provides detailed background into the development of Luther's popular Small Catechism, which began with Luther's early sermon series on the Ten Commandments,...

The Wittenberg Concord: Creating Space for Dialogue

Gordon A. Jensen (Author)

One of the mostly forgotten gems of the sixteenth century Reformations is the Wittenberg Concord. Signed in 1536 by representatives of evangelical southern German imperial...

Life Together: Reader's Edition

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Geffrey B. Kelly (Author of the Introduction), Victoria J. Barnett (Editor), Daniel W. Bloesch (Translator)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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 community, based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the Finkenwalde Seminary.  

Little Prayer Book, 1522 and A Simple Way to Pray, 1535: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Mary Jane Haemig (Editor), Eric Lund (Editor)

This volume provides two of Martin Luther’s most significant writings on prayer. In Little Prayer Book, 1522, Luther seeks to reform the theology and practice...

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation

Teresa L. Fry Brown (Author)

Teresa L. Fry Brown introduces preachers to the effective use of voice and body in the animation of the word in the preaching moment. Suggestions and exercises...

Psalms 3: A Commentary on Psalms 101-150, Hermeneia series

Frank Lothar Hossfeld (Author), Erich Zenger (Author), Klaus Baltzer (Editor), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

In this "meticulous" commentary, "brilliantly" translated by Linda M. Maloney (Review of Biblical Literature), Hossfeld and Zenger provide for each psalm a...

Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality

Robert Kolb (Author)

Kolb explores Luther's use of the Latin preposition coram - "face-to-face" - to demonstrate the foundational role of relationships in Luther's thought. For Luther, believers, fundamentally rooted in their relationship with the Creator of every person and thing, experience all of life's realities in relationship: with God, self, and others.

Acts: A Commentary

Richard I. Pervo (Author), Harold W. Attridge (Editor)

The Acts of the Apostles joins the Gospel of Luke with the ministry of Paul. Renowned New Testament scholar Richard I. Pervo shows how this masterful...

Psalms 2: A Commentary on Psalms 51-100

Frank Lothar Hossfeld (Author), Erich Zenger (Author), Klaus Baltzer (Editor), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

This newest contribution to the acclaimed Hermeneia series provides in-depth analysis of Psalms 51-100. It is volume 2 of a three-volume work; volume 3...

Jeremiah: The World and the Wound of God

Daniel Berrigan (Author)

Jeremiah exposes the corruption of religious commitments, addresses national trauma and uncertainty, and proclaims the requirements of true lament and resolve. Daniel Berrigan's fiery, spiritual reading of the prophet Jeremiah evokes social action, religious courage, and personal witness.

What Is African American Religion?: Expanded Edition

Anthony B. Pinn (Editor)

Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume asks the central question: What really is African American religion? In this expanded edition, Pinn offers new reflections on the state of the Black church.

Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity

Joerg Rieger (Author), Ashley John Moyse (Editor), Scott A. Kirkland (Editor)

Joerg Rieger takes a new look at the things that cause the growing destruction and death of people and the planet. And yet, understanding is only a start. Solidarity and the willingness to work at the intersections--the triad of gender, race, class, and more--must mark the work of theology.

Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology

Peter Kline (Author)

The main contention of this book is that Kierkegaard’s apophaticism is an ethical-religious difficulty, concerning itself with the "whylessness" of existence. This is a theme that Kierkegaard inherits from the philosophical and theological traditions stemming from Meister Eckhart. The book examines Kierkegaard’s apophaticism with reference to five themes: indirect communication, God, faith, hope, and love. Across these themes, the aim is to lend voice to "the unruly energy of the unsayable" and, in doing so, let Kierkegaard’s theological, spiritual, and philosophical provocation remain a living one for us today.

Judges 1: A Commentary on Judges 1:1 – 10:5

Mark S. Smith (Author), Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith (Author)

This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation and detailed interpretation of the book of Judges, drawing on archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, as well as a thorough review of modern scholarship. Full literary and redactional analyses are included. Notably, archaeology is used to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges."

The Peoples' Companion to the Bible

Curtiss Paul DeYoung (Editor), Wilda C. Gafney (Editor), Leticia Guardiola-Saenz (Editor), George E. Tinker (Editor), Frank Yamada (Editor)

Watch Curtiss Paul DeYoung discuss The Peoples' Bible. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Building on the enthusiastic reception of and critical...

The Freedom of a Christian: Luther Study Edition

Martin Luther (Author), Mark D. Tranvik (Editor)

Perhaps no work of Martin Luther's so captures the revolutionary zeal and theological boldness of his vision as The Freedom of a Christian. Yet, it is not...

Liberating Luther: A Lutheran Theology from Latin America

Vitor Westhelle (Author), Robert Butterfield (Translator)

Until his untimely death, Vitor Westhelle's incisive scholarship shaped a generation. As a continuation of that legacy, presented here for the first time in English is a collection of Westhelle's Portuguese-language essays.

In this collection, he addresses the most important issues of our day, including the cross and death, the ecological crisis, the ecumenical movement, the church's misuse of power, Luther's law-gospel dialectic, and the role of European theology in the conquest of the Americas.

Act and Being: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 2

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Wayne Whitson Floyd (Editor), Hans-Richard Reuter (Editor), Martin H. Rumscheidt (Translator)

Act and Being, written in 1929--1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the...