Fortress Press

Honestly: Telling the Truth about the Bible and Ourselves

Mark Wingfield (Author)

It's no wonder modern Christians have trouble with the truth after living for so long with lies about the Bible. This book aims to set the record straight and encourage honest conversation about the Bible and ourselves. It explores a number of big topics through the lenses of truth and faith.

Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity

D. Glenn Butner Jr. (Author)

The book argues that the holy family has a limited set of legal options for protection, but under current law is unlikely to receive any. Along with the basics of modern refugee law and processes, Butner raises ethical challenges to the refugee system, indicting our moral failures and daring us to make amends.

Nuestra fe: Una introducción a la teología cristiana, segunda edición revisada

Nancy Elizabeth Bedford (Author), Guillermo Hansen (Author)

Esta segunda edición, corregida y aumentada, recorre temas centrales – como la trinidad, cristología, escatología, y pneumatología – entrelazándolos con toques específicos de la tradición protestante desde una perspectiva latina atenta al estado actual de nuestras sociedades y culturas.

Confessing Community: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation in North East India

Taimaya Ragui (Author), Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Foreword by)

The book provides an entryway to the discussion between theological interpretation of Scripture and contextual theology (i.e., tribal theology). It argues for the need to consider the importance of reading the Bible with multiple contexts in mind, while addressing the tension between church and academy.

Fleeing Plague: Medieval Wisdom for a Modern Health Crisis

Martin Luther (Author), Anne Marie Johnson (Introduction and notes by)

With sixteenth century Germany experiencing the ravages of the Bubonic Plague, Martin Luther was asked to comment on whether Christians could flee home and labors on account of the plague. Anna Marie Johnson introduces and comments on Luther's 1527 treatise "Whether One May Flee the Deadly Plague," still surprisingly relevant with the pandemic.

Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders

Victoria Atkinson White (Author), L. Gregory Jones (Foreword by)

Victoria Atkinson White in Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships That Sustain Pastors and Leaders offers hope, grace, and humor, inviting readers to invest in their own resilience, sustainability, and flourishing and to cultivate beloved community by nurturing holy friendships--mutual and sacred relationships deeply rooted in God's love.

Christ and the Christian Life: Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics

Gerhard O. Forde (Author)

Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Work of Christ, Forde examines "what God did in Jesus Christ" In Christian Life, he undertakes justification and sanctification. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.

Biblical Anthropology: A Philosophical, Medical, and Sociological Sourcebook

Annette Weissenrieder (Author), Katrin Dolle (Author)

Next to the philosophical tradition, ancient medical texts represent the most important systematic reflection on the components, aspects, and dimensions of the person and embodiment. Until now, these sources and their relation to the philosophical tradition have received little attention in biblical scholarship.

Visionary Women: Three Medieval Mystics

Rosemary Radford Ruether (Author)

The influential feminist theologian Rosemary Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics: Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich. Ruether's sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity.

Intercultural Christology in John's Gospel: A Subaltern Reading from India

Biju Chacko (Author)

Intercultural Christology in John's Gospel unravels the intercultural intersections and subaltern dimensions of John's Christology. A hermeneutical framework of intercultural resonance and subaltern subversive rhetoric is a key to unlock the Gospel. Such a hermeneutical approach is a viable option in any subaltern context.

A Rumor of Black Lutherans: The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism

James R. Thomas (Author)

The history of Lutheran engagement in the Black context in the U.S.A. is regrettably thin. The book helps Lutherans in the United States and other students of American history assemble a complete account of the role of early American Lutherans in higher education among African Americans.

Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy

Mary W. McCampbell (Author)

In order to truly love and welcome others, we need to exercise our imaginations and see people more as God sees them instead of according to our own inadequate and ungracious labels. Mary McCampbell examines how narrative art expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Telugu Christians: A History

James Elisha Taneti (Author)

By confessing the Lordship of Christ, taking on Christian practices, and affiliating with the global church, Telugu Christianity is truly Christian. This volume analyzes the social life of Telugu Christians, local worldviews, and historical realities that shaped the evolution of Telugu faith.

Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual Age

Nick Ripatrazone (Author)

Digital Communion explores the religious history of mass communication, focusing on Marshall McLuhan's vision of the electronic world as a place of potential spiritual exchange. McLuhan's Catholicism deeply informed his theory, which in turn reveals how we can cultivate a more spiritual vision of the internet.

J. H. Oldham and George Bell: Ecumenical Pioneers

Keith W. Clements (Author)

An introduction to two British shapers of ecumenical thought in the twentieth century, J. H. Oldham and Bishop George Bell. Oldham pioneered new thinking on social, racial, and international issues, while Bell used his stature to give voice in support of the oppressed in Nazi Germany. Both aided in the formation of the World Council of Churches.

Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity

Christine Schenk CSJ (Author)

Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the...

The Trinitarian Controversy

William G. Rusch (Editor)

This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the patristic church as a result of the Arian controversy.

A Widower's Lament: The Pious Meditations of Johann Christoph Oelhafen

Ronald K. Rittgers (Author)

This book deals with Christian lament in the late Reformation by exploring the efforts of a talented yet little-known layman to cope with the death of his beloved wife. It provides full access to the remarkable work of private devotion that he authored to express his lament.

A work of haunting candor and searching faith, The Pious Meditations furnishes insight into life in the past as well as resources for life in the present.

A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, Second Edition

Denis R. Janz (Editor)

Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian...

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings: Third Edition

Timothy F. Lull (Editor), William R. Russell (Editor)

The best one-volume reader of Luther's writings—now revised. Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential...