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Academic Theology

  • Matthew: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

    Matthew: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

    O. Wesley Allen Jr. (Author)

    Wes Allen draws together the strengths of these two approaches into a new genre of homiletical and teaching resource with a focus on the Gospel according to Matthew.

    $26.00

  • Sanctorum Communio: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1

    Sanctorum Communio: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author)

    Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the first...

    $32.00

  • Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America

    Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America

    Kate Hanch (Author)

    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.

    $28.00

  • Irrevocable: The Name of God and the Unity of the Christian Bible

    Irrevocable: The Name of God and the Unity of the Christian Bible

    R. Kendall Soulen (Author)

    Irrevocable focuses attention upon a crucial but often misunderstood feature of the Bible--God's personal proper name. Author R. Kendall Soulen explores the implications of God's proper name for Christian faith and for Christianity's relationship to Judaism and Islam.

    $34.00

  • Confessing and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed as Script for the Christian Life

    Confessing and Believing: The Apostles’ Creed as Script for the Christian Life

    Trevor Hart (Author)

    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.

    $28.00

  • The Primacy of Love

    The Primacy of Love

    Ilia Delio (Author)

    In an age of anxiety where reason is deified, what is the role of love? From the cosmological to the theological dimensions of existence, love is the irresistible force of attraction to the heart of God. The book is divided based on a metaphysics of love: we are born out of divine love, exist in love, and are oriented toward love.

    $12.75

  • The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

    The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God: On the Contingency and Legitimacy of Doctrine

    Florian Klug (Author), Marcus Pound (Foreword by)

    The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God offers a theological account of the contingency of language and perception and of how acknowledging that contingency transforms the question of the development of doctrine. Klug argues that statements of faith cannot overcome contingency. Instead, the Catholic notion of receptive tradition is an attempt to cope rationally with the fragility of perception and language in humanity's orientation toward God.

    $8.50

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  • Liberating Luther: A Lutheran Theology from Latin America

    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.

    $7.25

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  • Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology

    Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology

    John B. Cobb Jr. (Author)

    Comprehensive in scope, non-technical in expression, and concise in length, Is It Too Late? provides the scholar and the student alike with a readable and compelling orientation to the philosophical and theological stakes of ecology. This Fortress edition includes a new preface in which Cobb reflects on the current situation, the specific promises and perils we now face, and how his own thinking on matters theological and ecological has evolved in the last half century.

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  • Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place

    Ways of the Word: Learning to Preach for Your Time and Place

    Sally A. Brown (Author), Luke A. Powery (Author)

    Preaching, and the discipline of preaching, is at a crossroads. The changing realities of church and theological education, the diversity of our classrooms, and our increasingly complex community contexts leave us in search of tools to help train a rising generation of preachers for a future whose contours are far from clear. In Ways of the Word, a dynamic team of master preachers, Sally A. Brown and Luke A. Powery, speaks with one voice their belief that preaching is a witness to the ongoing work of God in the world. 

    $37.00

  • The Reformation to the Modern Church: A Reader in Christian Theology

    The Reformation to the Modern Church: A Reader in Christian Theology

    Keith D. Stanglin (Editor)

    Engagement with primary sources is an essential part of effective teaching and learning in the church history or theology course. And yet, pulling together and distilling the right readings can be challenging. In this all-new primary-source anthology, Keith D. Stanglin has done the heavy lifting for a new generation of classrooms. Stanglin has edited and introduced over 100 selections to create a reader that orients students to the ebb and flow of thought that moves out from the pre-Reformation period.

    $49.00

  • Finding God among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

    Finding God among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

    Kristin Johnston Largen (Author)

    This supplemental theology text prepares students for articulating their Christian beliefs in a religiously and culturally diverse world.

    $34.00

  • Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community

    Open: Unorthodox Thoughts on God and Community

    Brad R. Braxton (Author)

    This book boldly articulates an open theology--progressive approaches that promote unorthodox theological reflection and the creation of inclusive communities. Brad Braxton outlines Christianity's capacity to foster healing, hope, and restorative justice through embracing pluralism and radically inclusive love.

    $24.00

  • Three Treatises: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Three Treatises: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Timothy J. Wengert (Editor), Erik H. Herrmann (Editor), James M. Estes (Editor), Paul W. Robinson (Editor)

    Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg in 1517. In the three years after, he clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520. In the writings Luther framed his ideas in terms that are comprehensible to clergy and people from all backgrounds.

    $29.99

  • The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary

    The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary

    Charlotte Hempel (Author)

    The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.

    $38.00

  • Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity

    Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity

    Tim Hartman (Author)

    Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako presses all Christians to question their own theological commitments. He does so by rethinking Christian identity in light of cultural identity and the shortcomings of colonialism. Bediako's quest to be both African and Christian informs what it means to be Christian in a secularized Europe and North America.

    $29.00

  • Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

    Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition

    Dennis A. Jacobsen (Author)

    Doing Justice introduces people of faith to congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to- day struggles and hopes of urban ministry. Drawing from the author’s decades of...

    $24.00

  • Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord

    Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method: From Martin Luther to the Formula of Concord

    Robert Kolb (Author)

    Galvanized by Erasmus' teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote De servo arbitrio, or The Bondage of the Will, insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of De servo, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 Formula of Concord. 

    $39.00

  • Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church

    Harvesting Martin Luther’s Reflections on Theology, Ethics, and the Church

    Timothy J. Wengert (Author)

    As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living. Harvesting Martin Luther's Reflections highlights this concern of Luther, mining his thought in key areas of doctrine, ethics, and church practice. Gathering noteworthy contributions by well-known Luther scholars from Europe and the Americas, this book ranges broadly over theological questions about baptism and righteousness, ethical issues like poverty and greed, and pastoral concerns like worship and spirituality.

    $39.00

  • Preaching from Home: The Stories of Seven Lutheran Women Hymn Writers

    Preaching from Home: The Stories of Seven Lutheran Women Hymn Writers

    Gracia Grindal (Author)

    This volume by Gracia Grindal introduces English-speaking readers to several significant yet unsung Lutheran women hymn writers from the sixteenth century to the present. After a brief introductory discussion of Elisabeth Cruciger, the first woman hymn writer of the Reformation, Grindal provides fascinating profiles of these talented Scandinavian women who "preached from home": Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Birgitte Hertz Boye, Berthe Canutte Aarflot, Lina Sandell, Britt G. Hallqvist, and Lisbeth Smedegaard Andersen. 

    $39.00

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