Fortress Press

The People's Work, paperback edition: A Social History of the Liturgy

Frank C. Senn (Author)

Distinguished liturgical historian and theologian Frank Senn here ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics to reconstruct...

How God Acts: Creation, Redemption, and Special Divine Action

Denis Edwards (Author)

How does the Christian doctrine of creation square with the picture of an evolving universe we receive from science today? How do the badly predatory behavior...

Proclaiming the Gospel

Brian K. Peterson (Author)

This volume captures central emphases of the Lutheran tradition for use in preaching, especially its distinctive use of the Bible, its Archimedean theological...

Wrestling with the Questions: An Introduction to Contemporary Theologies

Gregory C. Higgins (Author)

Watch Gregory Higgins discuss his new book, Wrestling with the Questions. Find more videos like this on Fortress Forum. One of the best ways of...

Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross

Theodore W. Jennings Jr. (Author)

Many books on the Christian doctrine of atonement have been published in recent years. Some point out the difficulties of traditional atonement theories; others...

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,...

Kindling Desire for God: Preaching as Spiritual Direction

Kay L. Northcutt (Author)

The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary moments in the past century, focusing on its purpose as being variously persuasion, explanation,...

Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark

Raquel A. St. Clair (Author)

"The son of man must suffer," Jesus tells his disciples in the Gospel of Mark, and interpreters agree this warning is centrally important to the Gospel....

A Field Guide for the Missional Congregation: Embarking on a Journey of Transformation

Richard Rouse (Author), Craig Van Gelder (Author), Martin E. Marty (Foreword by)

The roster of books on leadership is full of high theory and grand expositions of biblical principles. But there is precious little practical advice for regular...

The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection

Andrea Bieler (Author), Luise Schottroff (Author), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology,...

Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians

Don H. Compier (Editor), Kwok Pui-lan (Editor), Joerg Rieger (Editor)

Distinguished theologians assess the achievements and legacies of thirty- one theological giants in light of Christianity's engagement with imperial power,...

On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics

Jürgen Moltmann (Author), M. Douglas Meeks (Author of the Introduction)

This collection of provocative essays by one of the world's most distinguished theologians deals with topics as diverse as the right to work, nuclear war, the...

Church Administration: Programs, Process, Purpose

Robert Bacher (Author), Michael Cooper-White (Author)

This comprehensive guide, from two experienced and thoughtful churchmen, treats each aspect of congregational governance as a sacred calling with an overriding religious mission.

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ernst Feil (Author), Martin H. Rumscheidt (Translator)

Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology

Gordon W. Lathrop (Author)

This sequel to Gordon Lathrop's highly successful Holy Things is an exercise in liturgical theology, viewing the activities of worship as a means of defining...

Preaching without Contempt: Overcoming Unintended Anti-Judaism

Marilyn J. Salmon (Author)

Marilyn Salmon's persuasive and practical work helps preachers to identify the ways that Christian preachers perpetuate the long tradition of Christian...

Clergy Burnout: Recovering from the 70-Hour Week...and Other Self-Defeating Practices

Fred Lehr (Author)

In this highly accessible book, Fred Lehr clarifies the nature and practice of clergy codependence. In short, insightful, and highly readable chapters, filled...

Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion

Dwight N. Hopkins (Author)

Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a...

A Primer on Pastoral Care

Jeanne Stevenson Moessner (Author)

Based on her twenty years of teaching and on her own experience in pastoral care, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has written a basic pastoral-care text to assist in...

Economy of Grace

Kathryn Tanner (Author)

Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism? University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a serious and creative proposal for...