Fortress Press

Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community

Walter Earl Fluker (Author)

We live in a leadership crisis. "In an age when incompatible worlds collide and when scandals rock formerly stable institutions," says Walter Fluker,...

The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery

Raimon Panikkar (Author), Joseph A. Cuneen (Translator)

In this beautiful meditation, Panikkar charts the paradoxes and possibilities of our experience of God. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the Bible and...

Crossing the Divide: Luther, Feminism, and the Cross

Deanna A. Thompson (Author)

Over the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that...

En la Lucha / In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, Tenth-Anniversary Edition

Ada María Isasi-Díaz (Author), Fernando F. Segovia (Author)

Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology – the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women –...

Participating in God: Creation and Trinity

Samuel M. Powell (Author)

In this exciting work, Samuel Powell offers a new constructive and systematic vision of creation by interpreting it in terms of contemporary science and...

The Wrath of Jonah: Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Herman J. Ruether (Author), Rosemary Radford Ruether (Author)

The wrenching situation in the Middle East, recent events have shown, is as complex as it is volatile. In this immensely learned and clarifying...

Moving Beyond Church Growth: An Alternative Vision for Congregations

Mark A. Olson (Author)

Character development for communities of faith - Mark Olson believes that trying to meet unrealistic expectations for church growth, along with expectations...

Preaching Mark

Bonnie Bowman Thurston (Author)

An expert guide from Galillee to Jerusalem This new resource examines the major literary units of Mark's Gospel with an eye toward helping the pastor in...

Preaching as Local Theology and Folk Art

Leonora Tubbs Tisdale (Author)

Explains how to analyze a congregation so the sermon really fits the listeners. Provides practical helps for preparing and delivering sermons that are meaningful and appropriate.

The Effective Pastor: A Guide to Successful Ministry

Louis W. Bloede (Author)

This highly practical step-by-step look at the life and role of the pastor is helpful for newly ordained clergy as well as the experienced pastor looking for...

Divine Immutability: A Critical Reconsideration

Isaak August Dorner (Author), Claude Welch (Translator), Robert R. Williams (Translator)

Occasioned by the nineteenth-century kenotic christological controversy, Isaak Dorner's essay—which is here completely translated into English for the...

The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion

Philip Hefner (Author)

Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide

George E. Tinker (Author)

George Tinker's fascinating probe into U.S. mission history pierces the romantic veil of most history writing and shows how four of the most noted Christian...

The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Theodore G. Tappert (Translator)

Confessional writings of the Lutheran Church and other information essential to understanding the confessions.

Wide Welcome: How the Unsettling Presence of Newcomers Can Save the Church

Jessicah Krey Duckworth (Author)

Jessicah Krey Duckworth presents the stark differences between the established congregation and the disestablished one, intentionally equipped to facilitate the encounter between new and established members.

Acts of the Apostles: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

Ronald J. Allen (Author)

Acts of the Apostles helps the preacher identify possibilities for sermons based on texts and themes in the book of Acts.

Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Robert H. Albers (Editor), William H. Meller (Editor), Steven D. Thurber (Editor)

Those who are afflicted as well as those who are adversely affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance...

Proclamation and Celebration: Preaching on Christmas, Easter, and Other Festivals

Susan K. Hedahl (Author)

Proclamation and Celebration focuses homiletically on the six principal festivals of the church year: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity...

Questioning Assumptions: Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion

Tom Christenson (Author)

Tom Christenson turns philosophy inside out in this remarkable new book. Starting with the ongoing public debate over God's existence, he approaches traditional...

The Pastor: A Spirituality

Gordon W. Lathrop (Author)

Renowned liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop has composed a rich, meditative, and explicitly ecumenical spirituality for working pastors - whatever and...