Fortress Press

Academic Theology

  • The Faithfulness of Pluralism

    The Faithfulness of Pluralism

    John B. Cobb Jr. (Editor)

    The Faithfulness of Pluralism is an introduction to religious pluralism for a better understanding of its history and value. The book demonstrates how Christians can respond to religious diversity in faithfulness to scripture and tradition. It also outlines nine religious traditions and what each has to teach committed Christians today.

    $19.99

  • Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates

    Beauty Is a Basic Service: Theology and Hospitality in the Work of Theaster Gates

    Maria Fee (Author)

    The book argues that the projects of Chicago artist Theaster Gates are theological sites, places to encounter God and his truth concerning place, people, and things. By exploring Gates's practices, attention is drawn to God's own work of care, reconciliation, and vivification. Hence, Gates' hospitality points to God's hospitality.

    $32.00

  • 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

  • Confessing Community: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation in North East India

    Confessing Community: An Entryway to Theological Interpretation in North East India

    Taimaya Ragui (Author), Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Foreword by)

    The book provides an entryway to the discussion between theological interpretation of Scripture and contextual theology (i.e., tribal theology). It argues for the need to consider the importance of reading the Bible with multiple contexts in mind, while addressing the tension between church and academy.

    $29.00

  • Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity

    Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity

    Stanley H. Skreslet (Author)

    Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.

    $39.00

  • 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

  • Moral Triumph: The Public Face of Christianity in China

    Moral Triumph: The Public Face of Christianity in China

    Zhibin Xie (Author)

    This book examines Christianity in China by building a constructive theology for the distinctive realities of Chinese culture, society, and politics. It proposes Christian public responsibility to identify the moral problems in Chinese public life and proposes a public face of Christianity in China theologically and ethically.

    $29.00

  • Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral Life

    Loving Creation: The Task of the Moral Life

    Gary Chartier (Author)

    Gary Chartier offers an alternative to natural-law theories that disregard people's welfare and embrace impartiality. He envisions Christian love as focused on creation to enrich social practices and personal life. Loving Creation contributes to theological understanding, personal moral reflection, church practice, and participation in public life.

    $39.00

  • The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier

    Phil Allen Jr. (Author)

    The Prophetic Lens takes an important look at the use of the video camera as an indispensable prophetic tool for the security of Black lives and greater possibility for racial justice. The book highlights both the prophetic potential of the camera and the context of Blackness as a liminal existence amid a context dominated by whiteness.

    $28.00

  • Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition

    Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition

    Anthony B. Pinn (Author)

    What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship.

    $29.00

  • 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

  • The Audacity of Peace

    The Audacity of Peace

    Scot McKnight (Author)

    Scot McKnight sketches a peace ethic that embodies the self-denial of Jesus to the point of the cross and then vindicated by God. Through God's grace and the indwelling Spirit, the participant in the way of Jesus is transformed. A peace ethic is a lived theology whose discerning witness transcends the specific principles and ideas of that theology.

    $12.75

  • Beyond Dalit Theology: Searching for New Frontiers

    Beyond Dalit Theology: Searching for New Frontiers

    Paulson Pulikottil (Author)

    This book is a critique of Dalit theology, with proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India. It explores new ways of doing Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology, and ultimately argues for the need of a new public theology in the changing religious-political contexts of India.

    $29.00

  • Personal Idealism

    Personal Idealism

    Keith Ward (Author)

    This book is a definitive account of Keith Ward's theology, based on the philosophy of personal idealism. It records his views about God, revelation, the kingdom of God, life after death, the incarnation, atonement, and the Trinity. It discusses the most central Christian doctrines, formed in the light of modern science and Idealist philosophy.

    $12.75

  • Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States

    Unmasking the African Ghost: Theology, Politics, and the Nightmare of Failed States

    Cyril Orji (Author)

    Africa is continuously redefining itself in the face of Eurocentrism, misery, and oppression. Unmasking the African Ghost is a theological exploration of why the political and economic systems of so many African countries have failed and a proposal for paths toward renewing the social order.

    $9.75

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  • The Serendipity of Life's Encounters

    The Serendipity of Life's Encounters

    Ann Loades (Author)

    Reflecting on her path to becoming the first woman to be given a personal Chair at the University of Durham, professor emerita of divinity at the same, an honorary professor at the University of St. Andrews, and a CBE for "services to theology," Ann Loades introduces some of the key tenets of her theological thinking.

    $12.75

  • Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

    Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature

    Ed Simon (Author)

    Binding the Ghost considers the theological depth, resonance, and mystery of the acts of reading and writing. Ed Simon presents a lyrical, incisive, and humane sacralization of reading and writing that takes into account the wonder, enchantment, and mystery of the very idea of poetry and fiction.

    $32.00

  • Duppy Conqueror

    Duppy Conqueror

    Robert Beckford (Author)

    This book contours Robert Beckford's recontextualization of African American Black and Womanist theologies of liberation. Making the Black British experience a point of departure, Beckford's theological method appropriates two distinct approaches to pursue a contextual theology or a Black theology dub.

    $12.75

  • Spirit Life

    Spirit Life

    Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Author)

    As an Asian-American theologian existing in multiple cultural spheres, Grace Ji-Sun Kim works to disseminate Asian words and religious symbols into mainstream discourse so that we can move toward a nondualistic theology that provides space for the marginalized and the subordinated, paving a path toward liberation and radical demarginalization.

    $12.75

  • Letters to a Young Theologian

    Letters to a Young Theologian

    Henco van der Westhuizen (Editor)

    In this volume, Van der Westhuizen has assembled an outstanding and diverse array of theologians who offer their wisdom and reflection on what it means to be a theologian. Each contributor's brief letter considering the vocation is as unique as its author. Together the letters form a rich symphony on the art and craft of being a theologian.

    $19.00

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