Fortress Press

The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives

Gale A. Yee (Editor)

This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part...

Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

Willis Jenkins (Editor), Jennifer M. McBride (Editor)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation....

Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts series

Athalya Brenner (Editor), Archie Chi Chung Lee (Editor)

Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and diet to marriages licit and transgressive, examining all of these from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist methods.

Crossing the Divide: Luther, Feminism, and the Cross

Deanna A. Thompson (Author)

Over the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that...

Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope

Luke A. Powery (Author)

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides...

Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience

Peter J. Paris (Author)

This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris's popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spirituality....

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.

Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives

Mary J. Streufert (Editor)

The first of its kind, this book is a systematic representation of Lutheran feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies: systematic, in that it addresses...

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

Rima L. Vesely-Flad (Author)

At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious...

The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word

Walter Brueggemann (Author)

Against the easy assurance of a too-enculturated religion, Walter Brueggemann refocuses the preaching task around the decentering, destabilizing, always risky...

Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark

Raquel A. St. Clair (Author)

"The son of man must suffer," Jesus tells his disciples in the Gospel of Mark, and interpreters agree this warning is centrally important to the Gospel....

Emerging Heart: Global Spirituality and the Sacred

Beverly J. Lanzetta (Author)

Millions of Americans have adopted and adapted spiritual practices and virtues from a variety of traditions. What are they looking for? Theologian and retreat...

Radical Wisdom: A Feminist Mystical Theology

Beverly J. Lanzetta (Author)

Lanzetta illuminates the transformative potential of the classical tradition of women mystics, especially in light of contemporary violence against women around...

Theology for Skeptics: Reflections on God

Dorothee Soelle (Author), Joyce L. Irwin (Translator)

Here one of the most widely read theologians of our time returns to the most basic question of all: God. Yet she does so with a twist. Soelle's work invites...

Suffering

Dorothee Soelle (Author)

An End to This Strife: The Politics of Gender in African American Churches

Demetrius K. Williams (Author)

Williams's important work argues that taking the New Testament and particularly Galatians 3:28 seriously should lead black churches to challenge sexism and...

Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Editor), Hilda P. Koster (Editor)

Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. The book creatively engages Christian doctrine with the purpose of addressing the myriad ways climate change impacts the health and livelihood of women around the globe. The contributors focus their reflections around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. 

Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (Second Edition)

Barbara A. Holmes (Author)

Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices.

Israel's Poetry of Resistance: Africana Perspectives on Early Hebrew Verse

Hugh R. Page Jr. (Author)

Hugh R. Page Jr. argues that the careful collection and preservation of Israel's poetic traditions was an act of resistance to the forces of despair.

Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez

Nancy Pineda-Madrid (Author)

Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juárez,...