Fortress Press

Encountering the World of Post-Islam

Ben Adam (Author)

This book notes that an increasing number of people raised within Muslim communities reject Islam as a religion before embarking on an exploration of alternative spiritual worldviews. Adam's contribution is a practical guide to engaging post-Muslims, of whom there are an increasing number in the UK and elsewhere.

The Korean Healing Movement

Jun Kim (Author)

This work offers a systematic examination of the distinctive features of Korean healing theology, aiming to furnish readers with a robust theological framework for understanding Korean healing practices.

‘Travellers in Faith’ or ‘Stealthy Legions’: The Gurāgē Role in the Rise of Tablīghī Jamā‘at in Ethiopia

Worku Hailemariam Mohammed (Author)

The Tablighi Jama'at are an Islamic preaching movement in Ethiopia. This work explains the growth of Islam in Ethiopia in general and the Tablighi Jama'at as an Islamic movement for faith renewal in particular.

Trinity in Dialogue with Muslims

Mark Beaumont (Author)

This book examines Christian attempts to present the Trinity to Muslims along with Muslim reactions to these efforts. The reader will be able to see Christian presentations alongside Muslim responses to gain a comprehensive view of dialogue on the nature of God between Muslims and Christians.

The Mission Matrix: Mission Theologies for Diverse Mission Landscapes

Kirk Franklin (Author), Paul Bendor-Samuel (Author), Deborah Crough (With)

The Mission Matrix surveys the extensive realm of Mission Theology, dissecting its terminology and discerning its profound implications regarding God's mission (missio Dei) primarily from the Protestant mission movement perspective.

The Journey Concept: Rethinking Organisational Strategy in the Global Context of God’s Mission

Susan van Wynen (Author)

The Journey Concept addresses the need for a theologically and missiologically sound approach to strategic thought and practice that is community-focused and applicable in our ever-changing global and local contexts. The concept is not a model, but a mindset that draws from Scripture, story, history and a range of cultural experiences.

United with Christ: Martin Luther and Christian Mysticism

Volker Leppin (Author)

Leppin illuminates how Luther's emerging theology drew upon deep wells of personal mystical experience and the guidance of late-medieval mystics such as fourteenth-century priest and theologian John Tauler and others who influenced the reformer's views on a host of theological subjects, including such cornerstones as the Passion and the Eucharist.

The Annotated Luther, Volume 1: The Roots of Reform

Timothy J. Wengert (Editor)

Contains writings from 1517 to 1520 by Martin Luther that defined the roots of reform, beginning with the Ninety-Five Theses through The Freedom of a Christian, and including treatises, letters, and sermons. Also included are documents that reveal Luther's earliest confrontations with Rome that led to his excommunication by Leo X in 1520.

Climate Justice, Climate Hope

Michael Malcom (Author), abby mohaupt (Author), Bill McKibben (Foreword by)

Fruitful, faithful action toward climate justice creates more ecological, equitable, democratic forms of economic life. With stories, liturgies, humor, and straight talk, Malcom and mohaupt invite readers to build knowledge, skills, global companionship, and spiritual courage for action at the intersection of climate, economy, and racial justice.

Proverbs 1-15

Bernd Ulrich Schipper (Author)

The book of Proverbs is more than the sum of its parts. Even if some proverbs could be older, the overall composition stems from the late Persian or early Hellenistic period. By introducing the scribal student to the foundations of sapiential knowledge and its critical reflection, the book of Proverbs comes close to the critical wisdom of Job and Qohelet. In addition to a detailed exegesis of the biblical text, this commentary presents new parallels from Egyptian wisdom literature.

2 Chronicles: A Commentary

Ralph W. Klein (Author), Paul D. Hanson (Editor)

Ralph W. Klein's magisterial commentary on 1 and 2 Chronicles is now complete. Klein brings to lively expression the unique theological voice of the Chronicler...

Judith

Lawrence M. Wills (Author), Sidnie White Crawford (Volume Editor)

Judith is an ancient Jewish novella about a woman who saves Jerusalem by killing an invading general. Included in some early Christian versions of the Old Testament, its imagery and use of biblical motifs have played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context. It thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship and the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature.

Face to Face: Martin Luther's View of Reality

Robert Kolb (Author)

Kolb explores Luther's use of the Latin preposition coram - "face-to-face" - to demonstrate the foundational role of relationships in Luther's thought. For Luther, believers, fundamentally rooted in their relationship with the Creator of every person and thing, experience all of life's realities in relationship: with God, self, and others.

Digital Homiletics: The Theology and Practice of Online Preaching

Sunggu A. Yang (Author)

Digital Homiletics demystifies the art of online preaching and helps readers understand both the why and the how of engaging listeners in digital formats. After laying a concise and accessible theological foundation, Yang shares ten methods for effective digital preaching. Readers will find concrete tips and advice for sharing God's word online.

2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary

Robert Doran (Author), Harold W. Attridge (Editor)

The second-century B.C.E. Maccabean revolt against Seleucid oppression was a watershed event in early Jewish history and Second Maccabees is an important...

The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Volume 2

Victoria J. Barnett (Author), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author)

In his preaching, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's strong, personal faith—the foundation for everything he did—shines in the darkness of Hitler's Third Reich and in the church struggle against it. Though not overtly political, Bonhoeffer's deep concern for the developments in his world is revealed in his sermons as he seeks to draw the listener into conversation with the promises and claims of the gospel—a conversation readers today are invited to join.

They Don't Come with Instructions: Cries, Wisdom, and Hope for Parenting Children with Developmental Challenges

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl (Author)

Hollie M. Holt-Woehl offers insights for the journey with a developmentally challenged child. As the mother of a son with an autism diagnosis, she also offers ways to keep hope.

The book focuses on the challenges of parenting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), and/or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Readers who seek to understand what it is like to live with a developmentally challenged child will appreciate Holt-Woehl's down-to-earth and compassionate approach.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works—Reader's Edition Set

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author)

Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, these new editions of Discipleship, Ethics, Letters and Papers from Prison, and Life Together feature the latest translations of Bonhoeffer’s works, supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett, and insightful introductions by Geffrey B. Kelly, Clifford J. Green, and John W. de Gruchy. 

Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther's Theology

Volker Leppin (Author)

Leppin explores the four "solas" of the Reformation -- Christ, grace, faith, and scripture -- as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Leppin helps readers understand that in the journey toward new theological understandings, continuity and discontinuity were inextricably linked.

The Odes of Solomon

Michael Lattke (Author), Marianne Ehrhardt (Translator)

Known until the 18th century only from fragmentary quotations and references in patristic literature, more recent discoveries of Greek, Coptic, and Syriac...