Fortress Press

Spiritual Care

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Jay C. Rochelle (Translator)

Bonhoeffer says spiritual care is a function of the congregation and that it is an aspect of the broader, more encompassing activity of proclamation. In...

Between the Sexes: Foundations for a Christian Ethics of Sexuality

Lisa Sowle Cahill (Author)

The basis for a Christian sexual ethic, says Cahill, is a correlation of four sources: Scripture, Christian tradition (of faith, theology, and practice),...

The Social Teaching of the Black Churches

Peter J. Paris (Author)

In African American culture, the church is instrumental in establishing and maintaining social order. Professor Paris shows that a study of black church...

Helping When It Hurts: A Practical Guide to Helping Relationships

Robert L. Hunter (Author)

Robert Hunter offers practical insight into how to be a friend to someone in crisis. He contends that to focus on change, an emphasis on the future, a...

Pastor as Person: Maintaining Personal Integrity in the Choices & Challenges of Ministry

Gary L. Harbaugh (Author)

Harbaugh captures your interest with dramatic stories of the inner lives of working pastors, weaving these stories into patterns of meaning from his own...

The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective

Terence E. Fretheim (Author)

In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both...

Preaching Christian Doctrine

William J. Carl III (Author)

William J. Carl III confronts the problem of using theological language in preaching through a combination of serious theological reflection, rhetorical...

The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate

Robin Scroggs (Author)

Just what is a proper use of the Bible, especially the New Testament, in Christian debates about acceptance of homosexuals? In addition to bringing clarity...

Christian Dogmatics: Volume 2

Carl E. Braaten (Editor), Robert W. Jenson (Editor)

Volume 2 treats atonement, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, the sacraments, justification by faith, and eschatology.

The Christology of Mark's Gospel

Jack Dean Kingsbury (Author)

Power in Weakness: New Hearing for Gospel Stories of Healing and Discipleship

Frederick H. Borsch (Author)

Toward a Christian Political Ethics

José Miguez Bonino (Author)

Christian Dogmatics: Volume 1

Carl E. Braaten (Editor), Robert W. Jenson (Editor)

Volume 1 discusses dogmatics, the Trinity, the identity of God, creation, sin, and Christology.

Metaphorical Theology: Models of God In Religious Language

Sallie McFague (Author)

Readings in Christian Humanism

Martin E. Marty (Foreword by), Charles W Buzicky (Editor), R. W. Franklin (Editor), Harris Kaasa (Editor), Joseph M. Shaw (Editor)

From biblical times to the present day, the massively influential and engaging tradition of Christian reflection on the value of being human is presented here....

Experiences of God

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

Enduring meditations on hope, anxiety, and mystical experience, together with the author's personal confession of faith.

Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church

Karlfried Froehlich (Author)

Covers the emergence of hermeneutical questions in the patristic period.

Liturgies of the Western Church

Bard Thompson (Editor)

The liturgies of the Word and the Lord's Supper that are included in this volume range from those of the church fathers Justin Martyr and Hippolytus through...

The Augsburg Confession: Confession of Faith by Princes & Cities to Charles the V in 1530

The standard translation of this classic document.

Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology

James B. Nelson (Author)

Few would doubt that this is a time of transition in our understanding of human sexuality. The confusion about sexual morals and mores is the more obvious...