Fortress Press

Series and Themes

  • A More Radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism

    A More Radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism

    Gerhard O. Forde (Author), Mark C. Mattes (Editor), Steven D. Paulson (Editor)

    Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons--many previously unpublished--makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.

    $39.00

  • A Time for Confessing

    A Time for Confessing

    Robert W. Bertram (Author), Michael Hoy (Editor)

    This book is about faithful witnesses—from the Reformation to South African apartheid to Bonhoeffer—to the promise of Jesus Christ. Even in the midst of trials, these faithful followers have testified that the gospel is authority enough for the church's life and unity. 

    $34.00

  • Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications

    Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications

    Robin A. Leaver (Author)

    Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life—and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures, and musical examples, this volume is the most extensive study on Luther and music ever published. Leaver's work makes a formidable contribution to Reformation studies, but worship leaders, musicians, and others will also find it an invaluable, very readable resource. 

    $59.00

  • The Pastoral Luther: Essays on Martin Luther’s Practical Theology

    The Pastoral Luther: Essays on Martin Luther’s Practical Theology

    Timothy J. Wengert (Editor)

    Sixteen church historians here examine Martin Luther in an uncommon way—not as Reformer or theologian but as pastor. Luther's work as parish pastor commanded much of his time and energy in Wittenberg. After first introducing the pastoral Luther, including his theology of the cross, these chapters discuss Luther's preaching and use of language (including humor), investigate his teaching ministry in depth, especially in light of the catechism, and explore his views on such things as the role of women, the Virgin Mary, and music. 

    $49.00

  • The Preached God: Proclamation in Word and Sacrament

    The Preached God: Proclamation in Word and Sacrament

    Gerhard O. Forde (Author), Mark C. Mattes (Editor), Steven D. Paulson (Editor)

    The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.

    $39.00

  • The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology

    The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology

    Mark C. Mattes (Author)

    In this significant book Mark C. Mattes critically evaluates the role of justification in the theologies of five leading Protestant thinkers—Eberhard Jungel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert W. Jenson, and Oswald Bayer -- pointing out their respective strengths and weaknesses and showing how each matches up with Luther's own views. Offering both an excellent review of recent trends in Christian theology and a powerful analysis of these trends, Mattes points readers to the various ways in which the doctrine of justification has been applied today. 

    $34.00

  • Missa Est!: A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

    Missa Est!: A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

    Eugene R. Schlesinger (Author)

    Missa Est! is a constructive work in ecclesiology, and particularly the relationship between liturgy and mission in the church's life. It advances a notion of the church in which liturgy and mission are both given their due without opposing them to each other, subordinating one to the other, or collapsing them into each other. Mission and liturgy are intrinsically related to each other, for the church's liturgical rites disclose and enact the church's identity as a missionary community.

    $79.00

  • A Dual Reception: Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark

    A Dual Reception: Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark

    Clayton L. Coombs (Author)

    This volume argues that Eusebius? proposes a double solution to the problem that can be read as recognizing the authority of both the Longer and the Abrupt conclusions to Mark?s Gospel.

    $49.00

  • Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God

    Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God

    David Russell Mosley (Author)

    Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification.

    $49.00

  • Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory

    Christian Understandings of Evil: The Historical Trajectory

    Charlene P. E. Burns (Author)

    Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of evil and suffering.

    $24.00

  • Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory

    Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory

    Amy Frykholm (Author)

    With engaging sketches of the book of Daniel to contemporary America, Amy Frykholm offers a tour through more than two millennia of Christian thought on the future. Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had for future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds.

    $24.00

  • Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative

    Insights from Filmmaking for Analyzing Biblical Narrative

    Gary Yamasaki (Author)

    In this volume, Gary Yamasaki develops an innovative approach to biblical narrative, exploring the way stories are treated in filmmaking, and using that as a...

    $29.00

  • The Pentateuch: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    The Pentateuch: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Gale A. Yee (Editor), Hugh R. Page Jr. (Editor), Matthew J. M. Coomber (Editor)

    This commentary on the Pentateuch, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors from a rich diversity of perspectives connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues. Each chapter (Genesis through Deuteronomy) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretative tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. The Pentateuch introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation. 

    $19.00

  • The Gospels and Acts: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    The Gospels and Acts: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Margaret Aymer (Editor), Cynthia Briggs Kittredge (Editor), David A. Sánchez (Editor)

    This commentary on the Gospels and Acts, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors from a diversity of perspectives connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues. Each chapter (Matthew through Acts) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretive tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. The Gospels and Acts introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation. 

    $19.00

  • The Prophets: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    The Prophets: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Gale A. Yee (Editor), Hugh R. Page Jr. (Editor), Matthew J. M. Coomber (Editor)

    This concise commentary on the Prophets, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors from a rich diversity of perspectives connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues.  Each chapter (Isaiah through Malachi) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretative tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. The Prophets introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation.

    $24.00

  • Wisdom, Worship, and Poetry: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Wisdom, Worship, and Poetry: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Gale A. Yee (Editor), Hugh R. Page Jr. (Editor), Matthew J. M. Coomber (Editor)

    This commentary on wisdom, worship, and poetry, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues. Each chapter (Job through Song of Songs) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretative tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. Worship, Wisdom, and Poetry introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation. 

    $19.00

  • The Apocrypha: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    The Apocrypha: Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

    Gale A. Yee (Editor), Hugh R. Page Jr. (Editor), Matthew J. M. Coomber (Editor)

    This concise commentary on the Apocrypha, excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha, engages readers in the work of biblical interpretation. Contributors from a rich diversity of perspectives connect historical-critical analysis with sensitivity to current theological, cultural, and interpretive issues. Each chapter (Tobit through 4 Maccabees) includes an introduction and commentary based on three lenses: ancient context, the interpretative tradition, and contemporary questions and challenges. The Apocrypha introduces fresh perspectives and draws students, preachers, and interested readers into the challenging work of interpretation. 

    $34.00

  • On the Road to Vatican II: German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Church

    On the Road to Vatican II: German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Church

    Ulrich L. Lehner (Author)

    Since some of the most important Catholic Enlighteners lived in Germany, this book concentrates on their endeavors, but also frequently points to other European players. Only an unpolemical historical assessment of the Catholic Enlightenment can help us to get out of the current gridlock of interpreting Vatican II: was there a break with tradition, or was there continuity? 

    $49.00

  • The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Erik H. Herrmann (Editor), Paul W. Robinson (Editor)

    In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion.

    $16.99

  • The Bondage of the Will, 1525 (abridged): The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    The Bondage of the Will, 1525 (abridged): The Annotated Luther Study Edition

    Volker Leppin (Editor), Kirsi I. Stjerna (Editor)

    In autumn 1525, Luther wrote The Bondage of the Will as a response to humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam, who had criticized Luther's teachings in the diatribe On Free Will. Luther's argument on the matter of the bound and free will poses a challenge and an invitation for constructive contemporary theology.

    $25.00

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