Fortress Press

Academic Ethics

  • Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations

    Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations

    Danielle Tumminio Hansen (Author)

    Rape survivors need words to recover and tell their stories. But the words available often fail to describe their experiences, which isolates and silences them, enables future perpetration, and lets rape remain unacknowledged. Tumminio Hansen offers fresh ways of speaking and listening that reframe how we can describe, discuss, and address rape.

    $34.00

  • Work Out Your Salvation: A Theology of Markets and Moral Formation

    Work Out Your Salvation: A Theology of Markets and Moral Formation

    D. Glenn Butner Jr. (Author)

    Work Out Your Salvation demonstrates how participation in markets forms our moral character, perceptions, actions, and ideas. It argues that such formation varies based on market designs and our interactions within them. Undermining simplistic ideas about capitalism, Butler lays bare which features of markets make us better and which make us worse.

    $49.00

  • Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty

    Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty

    Levi Checketts (Author)

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated such advancement that people ask if it should be granted the moral status of personhood. This book argues that this view assumes that personhood corresponds to how well one's thinking mirrors the biases, worldview, and intelligence of the middle class, relegating the poor to the status of "nonhuman."

    $46.00

  • Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition

    M. Shawn Copeland (Author)

    M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.

    $26.00

  • Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality

    Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality

    Rachel Wheeler (Author)

    Rachel Wheeler offers compelling testimony for the value--and the life-giving power--of "rewilding." Drawing on the Bible, Christian spirituality, and environmental disciplines, Radical Kinship provides theoretical foundations and practical strategies for restoring the life-generating and life-sustaining norms in which we were created to dwell.

    $35.00

    Available September 24, 2024

  • Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

    Learning to Be Fair: Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

    Charles McNamara (Author)

    Learning to Be Fair excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, philosophers, America's Founding Fathers, and contemporary culture. He connects current debates about equity to long-standing questions about civil disobedience and the possibility of teaching people to be good.

    $39.00

    Available December 10, 2024

  • Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency

    Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency

    Margaret D. Kamitsuka (Author)

    The afterlife is often a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. The historical church ignored the death of unborn beings and the precarity of pregnancy, focusing more on the soul than the body. A new approach to eschatology is needed that upholds emerging unborn life and the pregnant believer's moral agency.

    $28.00

  • Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage

    Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage

    Cynthia Moe-Lobeda (Author)

    Moe-Lobeda develops a groundbreaking, practical, and visionary guidebook for building a moral economy: its urgency, the life-giving role of religious networks, and the varied forms of action needed. She skillfully traces pathways to follow in the sacred journey to equitable, ecological, and democratic economies: sustainable life in community.

    $35.00

    Available November 12, 2024

  • Theology In Motion: Migration, History, and Responsibility

    Theology In Motion: Migration, History, and Responsibility

    Aimee Allison Hein (Author)

    Theology in Motion helps us look to the future by analyzing how our past choices about immigration have left us with present responsibilities. Taking these responsibilities seriously and pursuing more just global relationships provides a way forward in which all people might participate and to which Christians are called.

    $39.00

    Available November 19, 2024

  • The Ethics of Protection: Reimagining Child Welfare in an Anti-Black Society

    The Ethics of Protection: Reimagining Child Welfare in an Anti-Black Society

    Lincoln Rice (Author)

    In the US, Black children are twice as likely as white children to be removed from their parents and adopted out to strangers. The Ethics of Protection responds to this dire reality with a liberationist approach to child welfare ethics. This book reframes child welfare by centering the stories, challenges, failures, and victories of Black families.

    $34.00

  • Christianity in Blue: How the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Theology Shape Progressive Identity

    Christianity in Blue: How the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Theology Shape Progressive Identity

    David A. Kaden (Author)

    Christianity in Blue shows how liberal values and progressive attitudes are the fruits of taking seriously both the Bible and Christian tradition. But rather than treating these sources as the final word, Kaden argues that they are places to start exploring how to be a Christian in the world. Christianity in Blue helps both progressive and conservative Christians better understand the importance of the Bible, theology, history, and philosophy for building a loving church for everyone.

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  • Faithful Economics: 25 Short Insights

    Faithful Economics: 25 Short Insights

    Daniel K. Finn (Author)

    Careful moral reflection and action are important across all of modern life, but they are especially critical in matters of economics. Faithful Economics is the ideal guide for navigating this complex arena and coming to a deeper understanding of how our faith and our economic lives intersect. The book is organized in twenty-five short lessons, each of which illuminates the issues, explains the questions, and leaves the reader with clarity and understanding.

    $4.75

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  • Reconsider the Lilies: Challenging Christian Environmentalism's Colonial Legacy

    Reconsider the Lilies: Challenging Christian Environmentalism's Colonial Legacy

    Andrew R. H. Thompson (Author)

    Christian environmentalism's dominant traditions have for too long avoided decolonial thought's critical gaze. Reconsider the Lilies introduces readers to the ways environmental issues are shaped by dynamics of racism and colonialism and orients readers to Christian approaches to environmentalism that can move beyond that legacy.

    $34.00

  • Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

    Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

    Katie Geneva Cannon (Author)

    Over the years, Katie Cannon's students referred to her work in progress as "Katie's canon." Not only does this book represent the canon of Cannon's best work; the book itself directly addresses the issues of canon formation and canon reformation. Cannon canonizes a literary tradition and directly addresses both oppression and liberation of African American women. Now in an expanded 25th-anniversary edition, Katie's Canon still packs firepower.

    $29.00

  • Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology

    Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology

    Peter Kline (Author)

    The main contention of this book is that Kierkegaard’s apophaticism is an ethical-religious difficulty, concerning itself with the "whylessness" of existence. This is a theme that Kierkegaard inherits from the philosophical and theological traditions stemming from Meister Eckhart. The book examines Kierkegaard’s apophaticism with reference to five themes: indirect communication, God, faith, hope, and love. Across these themes, the aim is to lend voice to "the unruly energy of the unsayable" and, in doing so, let Kierkegaard’s theological, spiritual, and philosophical provocation remain a living one for us today.

    $19.75

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  • The Beauty of Souls: Aesthetic Encounters with Marilynne Robinson

    The Beauty of Souls: Aesthetic Encounters with Marilynne Robinson

    Mark S. M. Scott (Author)

    The Beauty of Souls dialogues with scriptural, theological, and philosophical interlocutors to illuminate Marilynne Robinson's unique vision. It shows that Robinson's fiction does more than simply display and evoke beauty; it offers a philosophical-theological framework to discover and express the beauty of our own souls.

    $36.00

    Available March 18, 2025

  • Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women

    Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women

    Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Author)

    In Invisible, Grace Ji-Sun Kim examines encounters with racism, sexism, and xenophobia as she works toward ending Asian American women's invisibility. Speaking with the weight of her personal narrative, she proclaims that the histories, experiences, and voices of Asian American women must be rescued from obscurity. Speaking with the weight of a theologian, she powerfully paves the way for a theology of visibility that honors the voice and identity of these women.

    $28.00

  • Tribe: Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us?

    Tribe: Why Do All Our Friends Look Just Like Us?

    Sandra M. Unger (Author)

    Tribe explores the issues of reciprocity in cross-race and cross-class relationships using stories, narrative, and sociological insights and perspectives derived from urban fieldwork and the author's own life. The volume examines the social and structural barriers to the formation of these kinds of relationships, as well as the transformations that can take place as these barriers are overcome.

    $6.00

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  • Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs

    Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs

    Havilah Dharamraj (Author)

    The frank eroticism of the Song of Songs has long seemed out of place in the Hebrew Bible. As a result, both Jewish and Christian...

    $9.75

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  • Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

    Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

    Anna Mercedes (Author), Ashley John Moyse (Editor), Scott A. Kirkland (Editor)

    Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.

    $23.00

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