Fortress Press

The Life, Works, and Witness of Tsehay Tolessa and Gudina Tumsa, the Ethiopian Bonhoeffer

Samuel Yonas Deressa (Editor), Sarah Hinlicky Wilson (Editor)

This book opens a window into the lives and extraordinary witness of a Christian couple whose faithful life of service has earned them the moniker of Ethiopia’s...

The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance

Dorothee Soelle (Author)

Exploring the religious impulse known as mysticism — the "silent cry" at the heart of all the world's religions. Mysticism, in the sense of a "longing...

Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice

Grace Ji-Sun Kim (Editor), Hilda P. Koster (Editor)

Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice. The book creatively engages Christian doctrine with the purpose of addressing the myriad ways climate change impacts the health and livelihood of women around the globe. The contributors focus their reflections around the following doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin, incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. 

The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives

Gale A. Yee (Editor)

This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part...

Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

Willis Jenkins (Editor), Jennifer M. McBride (Editor)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation....

Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope

Luke A. Powery (Author)

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides...

Women and Redemption: A Theological History, Second Edition

Rosemary Radford Ruether (Author)

Rosemary Radford Ruether's authoritative, award-winning critique of women's unequal standing in the church, which explored the complex history of redemption in...

Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez

Nancy Pineda-Madrid (Author)

Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juárez,...

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 –...

Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives

Mary J. Streufert (Editor)

The first of its kind, this book is a systematic representation of Lutheran feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies: systematic, in that it addresses...

Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology

Monica A. Coleman (Author)

In her new book, Monica A. Coleman articulates the African American expression of "making a way out of no way" for today's context of globalization,...

Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought

Layli Maparyan (Foreword by), Monica A. Coleman (Editor)

This volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.

New Faith: A Black Christian Woman's Guide to Reformation,: Re-Creation, Rediscovery, Renaissance, Resurrection, and Revival

Sheron C. Patterson (Author)

Patterson argues that black women must possess "new faith" for their survival and future. This text is based on a womanist view of Jesus Christ and urges...

Suffering

Dorothee Soelle (Author)

Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective, Second Edition

Walter Altmann (Author), Thia Cooper (Translator)

Luther and Liberation recovers the liberating and revolutionary impact of Luther’s theology, read afresh from the perspective of the Latin American context. 

Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian

Dorothee Soelle (Author), Barbara Rumscheidt (Translator), Martin H. Rumscheidt (Translator)

Leading church activist and theologian Dorothee Soelle here recalls a lifetime of learning and activism in church, academy, and politics. Born in 1929 in...

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

Rima L. Vesely-Flad (Author)

At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.S. culture of blackness with criminality. Rima L. Vesely-Flad examines the religious...

Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (Second Edition)

Barbara A. Holmes (Author)

Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices.

Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women's Spiritual Writings

Shawn Madigan C.S.J. (Editor)

Winner of Catholic Press Association Book-of-the-Year Award—Spirituality
Unique in its range and depth, this lavish anthology for the first time...

Is God Christian?: Christian Identity in Public Theology: An Asian Contribution

D. Preman Niles (Author)

Is God Christian? Christian Identity in Public Theology: An Asian Contribution is a sequel to Niles’s previous book, The Lotus and the Sun: Asian Theological...