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An Unsettling God
Fortress Press 2009; US$ 21.99In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relationship. This book, drawn from the heart of foremost Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann?s Theology of the Old Testament, distills a career?s worth of insights into the core message of the... more...
Acts of the Apostles
Fortress Press 2013; US$ 21.99Acts of the Apostles helps the preacher identify possibilities for sermons based on texts and themes in the book of Acts. While offering a basic exegetical framework for interpreting passages in Acts in their historical, literary, rhetorical, and theological contexts, this volume also suggests ways in which the preacher can relate passages and motifs... more...
Matthew
Fortress Press 2013; US$ 21.99Traditional books on preaching a book of the Bible often look at broad themes of the text with little explicit advice about preaching individual passages. Lectionary resources often offer exegetical and homiletical insights about a pericope with little attention given to broader theme and structures of the book from which the lection is taken. In... more...
Who Is the Church?
Fortress Press 2013; US$ 21.99Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purpose?what churches ?do??but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus instead on ?what? or ?who? they are?to reclaim a theological,... more...
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?
Fortress Press 2013; US$ 23.99Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with deep roots in the tradition of womanist religious thought?while also departing from it in key ways. After a helpful and orienting introduction, this volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.... more...
Lutheran Handbook
Fortress Press 2005; US$ 14.99The essential field guide for all things Lutheran. Confirmands ? or anyone hiking the trails of life's adventures and challenges ? will want to pack this handy illustrated field guide to Lutheran theology and culture. This enjoyable, easy-to-read, reliable, all-in-one collection helps you understand the essential information about our theology,... more...
Christians and War
Fortress Press 2010; US$ 9.99James Reimer offers a fair presentation of the three classical Christian attitudes toward war: crusading or holy war, just war, and pacifism. His thoughtful survey of Christian teachings and practices on issues of war, violence, and the state takes readers from classical Greco-Roman times to the present. Arguing that the church's responses to war... more...
What is African American Religion?
Fortress Press 2011; US$ 9.99Sketching the religious landscape of African American communities today, the volume makes explicit the tension in traditional conversations about black religion that privilege either Christianity in particular or simply organizations (with doctrines and creeds) in general. Discussing the misunderstandings and historical inaccuracies of such views,... more...
Martin Luther's Theology
Fortress Press 1999; US$ 28.99This definitive analysis of the theology of Martin Luther surveys its development during the crises of Luther's life, then offers a systematic survey by topics. Containing a wealth of quotations from less-known writings by Luther and written in a way that will interest both scholar and novice, Lohse's magisterial volume is the first to evaluate... more...
Biblical Theology of OT and NT
Fortress Press 1993; US$ 35.99This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child's lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past generation. Childs rejects any approaches that overstress either the continuity or discontinuity... more...









