Fortress Press

Academic Theology

  • Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology

    Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology

    Kathryn Tanner (Author)

    With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and...

    $24.00

  • Pastoral Care Emergencies

    Pastoral Care Emergencies

    David K. Switzer (Author)

    David K. Switzer presents a clear, illustrative and practical manual for pastoral caregivers that covers the entire range of pastoral care emergencies...

    $29.00

  • Real World Faith

    Real World Faith

    Walter Brueggemann (Author)

    Bodies, pain, suffering, hunger--and love. Politics, war, violence, hatred--and community. Walter Brueggemann, with wisdom and grace, weaves the story of our present time with God's good purposes. Real World Faith is a prophetic word.

    $24.95

  • The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World

    The Bible Is Not Enough: Imagination and Making Peace in the Modern World

    Scot McKnight (Author)

    The Bible. Neither a rule book nor a manual. Neither theology nor simply anthology. The Bible is a beginning, but not an end. The Bible imagines what a peaceful world might look like and then depends upon its readers to realize that world.

    $19.95

  • Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition

    Barbara A. Holmes (Author)

    These imagined dialogues between the elders on freedom, liberation, and more offer rich reflection and a unique vantage point for understanding the luminaries of liberation through the generations. An important resource for the contemporary task of Black liberation.

    $29.00

  • Experiencing Scripture: The Five Senses in Biblical Interpretation

    Experiencing Scripture: The Five Senses in Biblical Interpretation

    Victor H. Matthews (Author)

    To recreate or envision life in biblical times it is essential to acknowledge that humanity in every time and place is constantly immersed in sensation and derives meaning from sensual experience. The biblical text not only hints at sensual impressions, but also indicates how the senses are valued for interpretation.

    $28.00

  • 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

  • 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

  • Batman Is Jesus

    Batman Is Jesus

    Siku (Author)

    Artist-theologian Siku introduces the concept of Narrative Theology--and the specific subset of Graphic Theology--that informs his unique work and ministry. Through visual language, he demonstrates a contemporary method of engaging with the Bible that resonates with how the Hebrew sages and prophets of pre-antiquity read Scripture.

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  • Walking with Jesus in Strange Places

    Walking with Jesus in Strange Places

    John Swinton (Author)

    John Swinton's place of formation walking alongside people living with intellectual disabilities, mental health challenges, and dementia has gifted him the opportunity to ask questions that emerge from those who see the world differently. It shaped him as a theologian and raised questions of the nature of faithfulness, discipleship, and community.

    $12.75

  • An Evolving God, An Evolving Purpose, An Evolving World

    An Evolving God, An Evolving Purpose, An Evolving World

    Joan Chittister (Author)

    Modernity must be able to absorb the notion of a cosmic and evolving God. The old notions of who is in charge, who is superior and whose theology is paramount is in a state of flux. Unless, or until, a new vision comes into play, directs our hearts, guides our business, underlies our technology, the world is not ready for the horizon of Newness.

    $12.75

  • The Corner of Fourth and Nondual

    The Corner of Fourth and Nondual

    Cynthia Bourgeault (Author)

    Cynthia Bourgeault describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, Benedictine daily rule informed by wisdom from the Asian traditions. She explains the influence of philosophers built on the cornerstones of the Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery, tied by the Trinity as a cosmogonic principle.

    $14.00

  • Free in Deed: The Heart of Lutheran Ethics

    Free in Deed: The Heart of Lutheran Ethics

    Craig L. Nessan (Author)

    Free in Deed provides an imaginative and succinct introduction to Lutheran ethics, which the author contends is, finally, neighbor ethics. The gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free to serve neighbors--including all creation--and their well-being. This Lutheran framework provides a distinctive approach for navigating social issues in tumultuous times.

    $24.00

  • Return from a Distant Country

    Return from a Distant Country

    Alister E. McGrath (Author)

    The work is a summary of Alister McGrath's vision of Christian theology, focusing on the distinct role of historical theology, the importance of engaging the relation of science and faith, the need for theologians to participate in major public debates, and the significance of theological education.

    $12.75

  • The Liberation of Method: The Ethics of Emancipatory Biblical Interpretation

    The Liberation of Method: The Ethics of Emancipatory Biblical Interpretation

    David Janzen (Author)

    The field of biblical studies has championed the historical-critical method as the only way to guarantee objective interpretation. But in recent decades, scholars have pursued hermeneutical approaches that provide interpretations useful for marginalized communities who see the Bible as a resource in their struggles against oppression. Such liberative strategies remain on the margins. The Liberation of Method argues that this marginality must end, and that liberative methods should become central to biblical studies.

    $39.00

  • Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption

    Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption

    Phil Allen Jr. (Author)

    On December 10, 1953, tragedy struck when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer. Allen's death was recorded as an accidental drowning, a deliberate cover-up of the bullet hole seen by more than one witness.

    Three generations later, Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story through interviews, difficult conversations, and deep theological reflection, naming racism for what it is and working to chart a path toward reconciliation.

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  • Body Parts: A Theological Anthropology

    Body Parts: A Theological Anthropology

    Michelle Voss Roberts (Author)

    Christians have traditionally claimed that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), but they have consistently defined that image in ways that exclude people from full humanity. The most well-known definition locates the image in the rational soul, which is constructed in such a way that women, children, and many persons with disabilities are found deficient. Body Parts claims the importance of embodiment, difference, and limitation?not only as descriptions of the human condition but also as part of the imago Dei itself.

    $29.00

  • Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

    Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice

    Katie Walker Grimes (Author)

    Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses “antiblackness supremacy” as a corporate vice...

    $39.00

  • Athanasius and His Legacy: Trinitarian-Incarnational Soteriology and Its Reception

    Athanasius and His Legacy: Trinitarian-Incarnational Soteriology and Its Reception

    Thomas G. Weinandy OFM, Cap. (Author), Daniel A. Keating (Author)

    Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., and Daniel A. Keating introduce readers to one the key thinkers of the fourth century and the chief architect of Christian doctrine: Athanasius. The authors carefully illuminate Athanasius's crucial text Against the Arians, unfolding the Trinitarian and incarnation framework of Athanasius's paramount concern (soteriology), and providing, in the second part, a robust map of the reception and influence of Athanasius's thought—from its immediate impact on the late fourth and fifth centuries (in the Cappadocians and Cyril) to its significance in the Eastern and Western traditions and its reception in contemporary thought.

    $39.00

  • Eucharistic Body

    Eucharistic Body

    Frank C. Senn (Author)

    Building on his previous work, Frank C. Senn explores the relationship between the sacramental body and blood of Christ, the ecclesial body of Christ, and...

    $39.00

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