Augsburg Fortress

Cosmology: From Alpha to Omega

In ten provocative chapters Russell explores such topics as: The Contingency of Creation and Big Bang Cosmology; Does 'The God Who Acts' Really Act?; New...

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A Loving Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing Black Life

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A Theology of Mission: Challenges and Opportunities in Northeast Asia

Those called to proclaim the gospel in Northeast Asia face a seemingly impregnable wall of culture that is highly resistant to their message. The author tackles the question of why the great outlay of human and material resources over the centuries has not produced a greater receptivity to the gospel. He seeks answers in the theological categories of missio Dei, ecclesia Dei, and regnum Dei. Biblical, doctrinal, theological, and historical considerations inform this study.

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Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian

Preachers are not simple representatives of a particular theological world. Each preacher manifests characteristics that arise from that person's particular...

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Spirit and the Politics of Disablement

In this remarkable and incisive work, Sharon Betcher analyzes our world and God's embodied presence in the light of her own disability and the insight it...

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The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection

Bieler and Schottroff bring together the best of contemporary scholarship on ritual theory and practice, Eucharistic origins, the Eucharist and eschatology,...

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The Future of Lutheranism in a Global Context

What are the strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities for Lutheran theology and the Lutheran church around the world? Contributors from around...

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Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today

This new revised edition, of the landmark 1988 text, includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and,...

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Storms over Genesis: Biblical Battleground in America's Wars of Religion

In one of history's discouraging ironies, just as the academic study of the Pentateuch revealed the multilayered composition of Genesis and separated it from...

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Christ as Sacrament and Example: Luther's Theology of the Cross and its Relevance for South Asia

This book explores the significance of Luther's theologia crucis as a viable resource for contextual theology amidst plurality of faiths and the massive poverty in South Asia. Against the pluralistic theological position that denies uniqueness and finality to Jesus Christ, the author argues that the concerns of genuine sensitivity towards other religions, liberation, justice, and peace can be adequately addressed within the framework of Luther's theology of the cross.

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Dimensions of Evil: Contemporary Perspectives

From natural catastrophes to horrific human violence to death- dealing social systems, evil calls out ever more dramatically for explanation and...

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Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross

What does it mean to be saved, and how can we make sense of the Christian claim that Christ died for our sins? That is the work of soteriology, the classic...

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Emerging Heart: Global Spirituality and the Sacred

Millions of Americans have adopted and adapted spiritual practices and virtues from a variety of traditions. What are they looking for? Theologian and retreat...

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The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form

First published in 1987 by Fortress Press, this 20th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller includes a new Afterword from the author. Here, in...

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Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times

Although we loathe admitting it, Christians have often, through crusade, conquest, and commerce, used the name and power of Christ to promote and justify...

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Tracing the Footsteps of God: Discovering What You Really Believe

For C. S. Song, theology begins with the conviction that God is somehow at work in our lives and our world, often in ways we hardly perceive. Interrogating our...

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eBook-The Lutheran Handbook 2

Being a good Lutheran is twice as hard in today's world. That's why every good Lutheran needs the power of The Lutheran Handbook II. With twice the Lutheran...

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Living Faith: How Faith Inspires Social Justice

What impels a Mohandas Gandhi or a Martin Luther King, Jr.? How does religious experience animate a lifetime of dedication and drive for social justice? In...

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The Apostolicity of the Church: Study Document of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity

The Lutheran-Catholic Commission on Unity offers here a study-document opening fresh perspectives in ecumenical ecclesiology. To indicate further steps toward the visible unity of the Lutheran and Catholic churches, the commission s document treats the church s apostolic character in continuity with its original foundation, the apostolicity of its ordained ministry, and the means it has for maintaining faith and teaching in that truth which the apostles communicated once and for all to the churches.

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The Future of Creation: Collected Essays

In these essays, written during the fertile years between Theology of Hope and The Church in the Power of the Spirit, world-renowned theologian Jürgen...

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