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"After Ten Years": Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Our Times

Victoria J. Barnett (Author)

How does one read the signs of the times? What does it mean to resist? How do we engage faithfully in struggle? Dietrich Bonhoeffer has achieved iconic status as one who epitomizes what it means to struggle and resist tyranny and fascism and how one acts in faithful witness as a religious and political commitment. Bonhoeffer’s witness and example is more relevant than ever. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by Bonhoeffer in 1942; “After Ten Years” is a succinct and sober reflection, and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the German people under National Socialism. This volume presents this timely and unique essay in a fresh translation and a penetrating introduction and analysis of the importance of this essay—in Bonhoeffer’s time and now in our own.

Modern Christian Thought, Second Edition: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2

James C. Livingston (Author), Francis Schüssler Fiorenza (Author), Sarah Coakley (Author), James H. Evans Jr. (Author)

This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall, provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements...

Elements of Christian Thought: A Basic Course in Christianese

Eugene F. Rogers Jr. (Author)

In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, Eugene Rogers transcribed the lectures that make his Introduction to Christian Thought course justly famous.

The result is an engaging introduction to the language--"Christianese"--that participants use to discuss God's activity in and for our world.

From Anselm to Wyschogrod, Rogers introduces us to the most interesting speakers of Christianese, enabling us to take part in the living conversation.

The Annotated Luther, Volume 4: Pastoral Writings

Mary Jane Haemig (Editor)

Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Martin Luther’s writings related to pastoral work, including sermons, hymns, letters, writings on prayer and the Christian life, as well as his widely used Small Catechism. 

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

Luther's Works, Volume 47: Christian in Society IV

Martin Luther (Author), Franklin Sherman (Editor)

In these four treatises, written between 1530 and 1542, we see Luther wrestling with volatile aspects of the Christian's ethical attitude toward the...

The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought-World of Early Christians

Heikki Räisänen (Author)

Click below to watch Heikki Räisänen discuss The Rise of Christian Beliefs. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Read Fortress Press's...

The Progressives' Bible: How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America

Claudia Setzer (Author)

Progressive movements have rooted themselves in the Bible as much as conservative. This book examines how abolitionism, women's rights, and civil rights movements used scripture for their arguments, featuring the work of Maria Stewart, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Modern Christian Thought, Second Edition: The Enlightenment and the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

James C. Livingston (Author)

This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall, provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements...

Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther's Theology

Volker Leppin (Author)

Leppin explores the four "solas" of the Reformation -- Christ, grace, faith, and scripture -- as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Leppin helps readers understand that in the journey toward new theological understandings, continuity and discontinuity were inextricably linked.

The Call to Discipleship

Karl Barth (Author)

In this brief essay, drawn from Church Dogmatics, Barth articulates what it means to follow Jesus in faith. He emphasizes that discipleship involves a...

G. W. F. Hegel: Theologian of the Spirit

Peter C. Hodgson (Editor)

The only anthology of Hegel's religious thought, this volume offers sympathetic and clear entrée to Hegel's religious achievement through his major relevant...

Indexes and Supplementary Materials: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 17

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Victoria J. Barnett (Editor), Barbara Wojhoski (Editor), Mark Brocker (Editor)

The completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, the definitive English translation of the Critical Edition, represents a milestone in theological scholarship. Now, the editorial team has offered an essential companion to the entire series in the form of an index volume.

Luther's Wittenberg World: The Reformer's Family, Friends, Followers, and Foes

Robert Kolb (Author)

In conversations about the Reformation, the name Martin Luther towers above all others. And rightly so. His work, vision, and writings set Christianity on a...