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The Forgotten Luther III: Reclaiming a Vision of Global Community
This book, the third in the Forgotten Luther series, invites congregations, with the help of five prominent church leaders and Luther scholars, to consider the shape of global mission in today's world. This study draws global implications from Luther's reforms and from the theology that shaped them. Accompanied by a discussion guide and videos of lectures and interviews, this book provides an excellent tool to help congregations engage the global mission of the church.
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Luther's Outlaw God, Volume 1: Hiddenness, Evil, and Predestination
In this first of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D. Paulson considers the two "monsters" of theology, as Luther calls them: evil and...
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Crispina and Her Sisters: Women and Authority in Early Christianity
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...
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Insights from Archaeology: Reading the Bible in the Twenty-First Century
Each volume in the Insights series presents discoveries and insights into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing...
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Comparing Judaism and Christianity: Common Judaism, Paul, and the Inner and the Outer in Ancient Religion
Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E. P. Sanders, and no one has produced a clearer or more distinctive vision of that relationship as it was expressed in the figure of Paul the apostle.
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Church and Empire
The history of the church's relationship with governing authorities unfolds from its beginnings at the intersection of apprehension and acceptance, collaboration and separation. This volume is dedicated to helping students chart this complex narrative through early Christian writings from the first six centuries of the Common Era. Church and Empire is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice.
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The Dionysian Mystical Theology
This book introduces the Pseudo-Dionysian "mystical theology," with glimpses at key stages in its interpretation and critical reception through the centuries.
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Rupturing Eschatology: Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross
Rupturing Eschatology is Eric Trozzo's constructive retrieval of Luther's theology of the cross for the purpose of establishing a contemporary Lutheran and "emerging" account of the cross, silence, and eschatology.
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God: A Brief History
This brief tour through three thousand years of religious history shows how the Christian doctrine of God evolved in response to tensions within the insights of...
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The Sayings of Jesus: The Sayings Gospel Q in English
Presenting the Sayings Gospel Q succinctly. Taking the English text from the International Q Project's authoritative The Critical Edition of Q (Fortress...
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Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa
Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context. It is set in the larger...
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How Christianity Came to China: A Brief History
Foreign missionaries who served in China ran the gamut of Christians, with differing views of their religion and differing ideas of how to spread it. When all foreign missionaries were forced to leave China in 1949 many thought their effort had been in vain. Yet some scholars predict that soon China will be the country with the largest Christian population in the world. Kathleen L. Lodwick tells the story of Christianity in China. It's essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contemporary phenomena that is Christianity in China.
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Interpreting Bonhoeffer: Historical Perspectives, Emerging Issues
Interpreting Bonhoeffer explores the many questions surrounding the complexities of Bonhoeffer's life, work, and historical context and what they might mean for how we understand and interpret Bonhoeffer now and in the future.
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Property and Riches in the Early Church
What should be the Christian attitude toward money and possessions? Have our own possessions left us blind to the utopian vision of the first Christians? Is...
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Lutherans in America: A New History
In this lively and engaging new history, Granquist brings to light not only the institutions that Lutherans founded and sustained but the people that lived within them. This shows the complete story—not only the policies and the politics, but the piety and the practical experiences of the Lutheran men and women who lived and worked in the American context.
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The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought-World of Early Christians
Click below to watch Heikki Räisänen discuss The Rise of Christian Beliefs. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. Read Fortress Press's...
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Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther: How the City Shaped the Reformer
This book offers a fresh reevaluation of Martin Luther's tempestuous relationship with Rome, the city he visited as a young Augustinian friar and never thereafter forgot. Luther's Rome, Rome's Luther will help readers see the ancient city, the long-lived empire, and the sacred home of the papacy from Luther's complicated perspective.
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Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Since Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s death in 1945, he has continued to fascinate and compel readers as a theologian, witness, and martyr. In this new biography, Christiane Tietz masterfully portrays the interconnectedness of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, theology and politics, discipleship, witness, and resistance, tracing the path from his childhood to his imprisonment and execution. Brief, lucid, and accessible, Tietz’s new account brings Bonhoeffer’s story and work to life in a vivid retelling, unfolding his important and widely read texts in the process. The volume also includes previously unseen pictures.
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A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement, 1932-1940
The Deutsche Christen, or "German Christians," a movement within German Protestantism, integrated Nazi ideology, nationalism, and Christian faith. For the first time in English, Mary M. Solberg presents a selection of 'German Christian' documents.
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Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology
Deviant Calvinism This book contributes to theological retrieval within the Reformed theology, and establishes a wider path to thinking Calvinism differently. It seeks to show that the Reformed tradition is much broader and more variegated than is often thought.
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