Fortress Press

Portraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology

Mark McEntire (Author)

What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the forceful "mighty acts of God" to the more subdued themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible?

The Theology of Martin Luther: A Critical Assessment

Hans-Martin Barth (Author), Linda M. Maloney (Translator)

Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today? Nearly five-hundred years after the beginning of the Reformation, Hans-Martin Barth explores that question

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The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church's Response, Second Edition

Pamela Cooper-White (Author)

In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine...

Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon

Matthew V. Johnson Sr. (Editor), James A. Noel (Editor), Demetrius K. Williams (Editor)

Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians has proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here the editors...

Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship

Bruce Chilton (Editor), Anthony Le Donne (Editor), Jacob Neusner (Editor)

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...

The Practice of Hope: Ideology and Intention in 1 Thessalonians

Néstor O. Míguez (Author)

Although the political interpretation of Paul is still considered something of a novelty in North America and Europe, it is well established in Latin America...

Martin Luther's Theology: Its Historical and Systematic Development

Bernhard Lohse (Author)

This definitive analysis of the theology of Martin Luther surveys its development during the crises of Luther's life, then offers a systematic survey by...

Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Diana L. Hayes (Author)

Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a...

Hermeneia New Testament on CD-ROM

The Hermeneia series is designed to be a critical and historical commentary to the Bible without arbitrary limits in size or scope. It will utilize the full...

Hermeneia Old Testament on CD-ROM

Unique, authoritative, indispensable, Hermeneia has in a generation produced many of the most influential and informative commentaries on the Bible in the...

Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future

Mark I. Wallace (Author)

Watch Mark Wallace discuss his new book, Green Christianity. The central message of this book is that...

Two Kinds of Love: Martin Luther's Religious World

Tuomo Mannermaa (Author), Kirsi I. Stjerna (Translator)

Published in Finland in 1983, Two Kinds of Love is the second of Tuomo Mannermaa's provocative books offering a distinctly different interpretation of Martin...

Wind, Sun, Soil, Spirit: Biblical Ethics and Climate Change

Carol S. Robb (Author)

How can Christians contribute to the debates about climate change and global warming? What ethical criteria do they bring to the conversation? How does the...

Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity

Laura Nasrallah (Editor), Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Editor)

While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have recently focused attention on ethnicity, on the one hand, and gender on the other, the two...

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...

Martin Luther's Catechisms: Forming the Faith

Timothy J. Wengert (Author)

Martin Luther's catechisms 3 the Small Catechism in 1528-29, and the Large Catechism in spring 1529 — responded in part to "the deplorable,...

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....

The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Cross Examinations: Readings on the Meaning of the Cross Today

Marit A. Trelstad (Editor)

In today's theological landscape the significance of the cross has become strongly affirmed and radically questioned. This exciting volume gathers theologians...

Christ Present in Faith: Luther's View of Justification

Tuomo Mannermaa (Author), Kirsi I. Stjerna (Translator)

Mannermaa's revisionist work on justification in Luther's theology — a notable contribution from one of the most influential Finnish scholars of Luther...