Fortress Press

Turn Your Church Inside Out: Building a Community for Others

Walter Kallestad (Author)

A primer for reinvigorating church life Drawing on his experience as pastor of one of the largest and fastest-growing congregations in America, Walt...

Fortress Introduction to Lutheranism

Eric W. Gritsch (Author)

A helpful and accessible guide to Lutheranism's history and central tenents, with numerous photos and illustrations. Small wonder that many are confused...

The Church in the Power of the Spirit

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

The title expresses the book's intention: not to go on distinguishing between God and the world, so as then to surrender the world, as godless, to its...

The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology

H. Paul Santmire (Author)

The Travail of Nature shows that the theological tradition in the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have...

To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church

Roberta C. Bondi (Author)

Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we...

Wrestling with God in Context: Revisiting the Theology and Social Vision of Shoki Coe

M. P. Joseph (Editor), Po Ho Huang (Editor), Victor Hsu (Editor)

Shoki Coe was among the first to speak of "contextualization" in theology. Coe argued that theology is not a reiteration of past formulas or doctrines...

Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer

W. Travis McMaken (Author)

Helmut Gollwitzer was a direct heir of the theological legacy of the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth. Yet, Gollwitzer’s work is perhaps least appreciated and...

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. 

Kenotic Ecclesiology: Select Writings of Donald M. MacKinnon

John C. McDowell (Editor), Scott A. Kirkland (Editor), Ashley John Moyse (Editor), Rowan Williams (Foreword by)

In this collection, MacKinnon’s central writings on the major themes of ecclesiology, and especially the relationship of the church to theology, are gathered in one source: including his two volumes from the 1940 ‘Signposts’ series and a later collection of essays entitled ‘Stripping of the Altars’.

The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy

D. Stephen Long (Author)

The Perfectly Simple Triune God challenges this critique and reading of Aquinas as a misunderstanding of his doctrine of God.

On Human Being: Christian Anthropology in the Conflicts of the Present

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

Competency-Based Counseling: Building on Client Strengths

Jack Cockburn (Author), Frank Thomas (Author)

This book demonstrates how counselors can help people to use the resources they already have so they can address issues that come up in life. The authors...

Act and Being: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 2

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Wayne Whitson Floyd (Editor), Hans-Richard Reuter (Editor), Martin H. Rumscheidt (Translator)

Act and Being, written in 1929--1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience in theology from the...

Cross-Cultural Counseling

Aart M. Van Beek (Author)

For the busy pastor, this volume outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to this type of helping process. Issues such as identity, sense...

The Pastor: Readings From the Patristic Period

Philip L Culbertson (Author), Bradford Shippee (Author)

Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings: Third Edition

Timothy F. Lull (Editor), William R. Russell (Editor)

The best one-volume reader of Luther's writings—now revised. Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings, a single-volume introduction to Luther's most influential...

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.

Old Testament Theology: Canon or Testimony

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Brevard S. Childs (Author)

For decades, two Old Testament interpretive giants, Walter Brueggemann and Brevard S. Childs, debated unity vs. diversity, canon vs. testimony, text vs. speech. Here in one place their respective approaches are contrasted and compared.

London, 1933-1935: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 13

Keith W. Clements (Editor), Isabel Best (Translator)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's pastoral sojourn in England from October 1933 to April of 1935, which he initially viewed as a withdrawal from the church clashes in...