Augsburg Fortress

Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age

In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other...

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Faith Development and Pastoral Care

James Fowler's work as the originator of faith development research -- his use of the theories of Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson for theology -- has been...

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Homiletic: Moves and Structures

Buttrick presents a complete homiletic that focuses on how sermons form in consciousness and how the language of preaching functions in the communal...

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Ritual and Pastoral Care

Pastoral counseling can be imbued with a sense of community and of the transcendent; there is no surer way for this to happen than through a vital and...

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Congregation: Stories and Structures

Is the congregation a kind of machine? This metaphor is implicit in those studies that assume congregations operate by rational cause-effect principles, have...

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Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics

There may be no more urgent cry today than that of "justice" -- and no more frequent accusation than that of "injustice." But what is meant when these terms...

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Confidence: How to Succeed at Being Yourself

Discover how you can: build inner strength, handle rejection, develop your uniqueness, keep your flaws in perspective, make friends with your body, find a...

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Martin Luther: An Introduction to His Life and Work

Luther's impact on theology and history was monumental, his writing was prodigious, his character was complex. The need for a critical overview of Luther's...

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Luther's Works, Volume 55: Index

Here is Volume 55, the long-awaited index to the American Edition of Luther's Works -- all 54 volumes! It is the capstone to a 27- year publishing project,...

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God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist hermeneutics, Phyllis Trible brings out what she considers to be neglected themes and counter...

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Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile

Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel's prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to...

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Jesus and Judaism

This work takes up two related questions with regard to Jesus: his intention and his relationship to his contemporaries in Judaism. These questions...

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Helping When It Hurts: A Practical Guide to Helping Relationships

Robert Hunter offers practical insight into how to be a friend to someone in crisis. He contends that to focus on change, an emphasis on the future, a...

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Pastor as Person: Maintaining Personal Integrity in the Choices & Challenges of Ministry

Harbaugh captures your interest with dramatic stories of the inner lives of working pastors, weaving these stories into patterns of meaning from his own...

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The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective

In this comprehensive and thought-provoking study, Terence Fretheim focuses on the theme of divine suffering, an aspect of our understanding of God which both...

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Preaching Christian Doctrine

William J. Carl III confronts the problem of using theological language in preaching through a combination of serious theological reflection, rhetorical...

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Pauline Parallels: Revised Edition

The Pauline Parallels has been redesigned and revised in order to provide an improved practical tool for students seeking to understand the Pauline corpus of...

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Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of...

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Power in Weakness: New Hearing for Gospel Stories of Healing and Discipleship

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Toward a Christian Political Ethics

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