Fortress Press

Christ and Evolution

Celia Deane-Drummond (Author)

The way Christ is understood is at the heart of Christian faith and self-understanding. It forms the basis of Christologies that can range from the most...

Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human Dignity

Beverly E. Mitchell (Author)

Historical theologian Beverly Mitchell probes some of the most egregious assaults on humans in the modern era to divine not only the root of racial and ethnic...

Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action

Philip Clayton (Author), Zachary Simpson (Editor)

Many theologians have been reconceiving the God-world relation, challenging the separation that underlay too much of Patristic and Scholastic theology. These...

Lives Entrusted: An Ethic of Trust for Ministry

Barbara J. Blodgett (Author)

Behind all the issues of ministerial conduct and character lies a simple reality. The heart of ministerial ethics and integrity, argues Barbara Blodgett, is...

From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths

David A. Sánchez (Author)

Sánchez's subject is the power of imperial myths — and the subversive power unleashed when resistance movements take over those myths for their own...

Incarnation and Imagination: A Christian Ethic of Ingenuity

Darby Kathleen Ray (Author)

Theologian Darby Ray suggests turning Christian behavior from the compliant to the prophetic through "christic imagination." "Part of what is...

God Reflected: Metaphors for Life

Flora A. Keshgegian (Author)

When a loved one dies, somebody inevitably says the death was God's will. The same claim is made when a person is cured of cancer. In a war, both sides often...

Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega

Robert John Russell (Author), Ian G. Barbour (Foreword by)

In ten provocative chapters Russell explores such topics as: The Contingency of Creation and Big Bang Cosmology; Does 'The God Who Acts' Really Act?; New...

A Loving Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing Black Life

Lee H. Butler Jr. (Author)

A Theology of Mission: Challenges and Opportunities in Northeast Asia

Gaylan Kent Mathiesen (Author)

Those called to proclaim the gospel in Northeast Asia face a seemingly impregnable wall of culture that is highly resistant to their message. The author tackles the question of why the great outlay of human and material resources over the centuries has not produced a greater receptivity to the gospel. He seeks answers in the theological categories of missio Dei, ecclesia Dei, and regnum Dei. Biblical, doctrinal, theological, and historical considerations inform this study.

Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today

Louis William Countryman (Author)

This new revised edition, of the landmark 1988 text, includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and,...

Taking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretations through Latina and Feminist Eyes

Barbara E. Reid (Author)

Discussions of the meaning of Jesus' passion are at a creative high point, in part because of popular events like Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, and...

Christ as Sacrament and Example: Luther's Theology of the Cross and its Relevance for South Asia

Jjamak Neeraj Ekka (Author)

This book explores the significance of Luther's theologia crucis as a viable resource for contextual theology amidst plurality of faiths and the massive poverty in South Asia. Against the pluralistic theological position that denies uniqueness and finality to Jesus Christ, the author argues that the concerns of genuine sensitivity towards other religions, liberation, justice, and peace can be adequately addressed within the framework of Luther's theology of the cross.

Dimensions of Evil: Contemporary Perspectives

Terry D. Cooper (Author)

From natural catastrophes to horrific human violence to death- dealing social systems, evil calls out ever more dramatically for explanation and...

The God of Nature: Incarnation and Contemporary Science

Christopher C. Knight (Author)

Although Christians have professed the God of Israel, they have often assumed a naturalistic theism that harks back to the Greeks. Doing so, says Christopher...

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...

The Apostolicity of the Church: Study Document of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity

Karen L. Bloomquist (Editor)

The Lutheran-Catholic Commission on Unity offers here a study-document opening fresh perspectives in ecumenical ecclesiology. To indicate further steps toward the visible unity of the Lutheran and Catholic churches, the commission s document treats the church s apostolic character in continuity with its original foundation, the apostolicity of its ordained ministry, and the means it has for maintaining faith and teaching in that truth which the apostles communicated once and for all to the churches.

All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century

Arthur Peacocke (Author), Philip Clayton (Editor)

During the last year of his life, Arthur Peacocke raced against time to formulate a final comprehensive overview of his "emergentist — naturalist...

The Future of Creation: Collected Essays

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

In these essays, written during the fertile years between Theology of Hope and The Church in the Power of the Spirit, world-renowned theologian Jürgen...

Thomas Müntzer: A Tragedy of Errors

Eric W. Gritsch (Author)

Rejected in the sixteenth century by both Protestants and Catholics, yet hailed by Marxist historians as a forerunner of the Marxist revolution, this volume...