Augsburg Fortress

Reframing: A New Method in Pastoral Care

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The Pastor: Readings From the Patristic Period

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God's Gifted People: Discovering Your Personality as a Gift

This book is gift-wrapped as a present. God's Gifted People is a present to yourself or to someone you love because it helps you discover the gift that you...

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Ethics in Ministry: A Guide for the Professional

An ethical guide for clergy and laypersons who deal with "the vexing questions that arise in the daily life of a minister at work." The authors discuss...

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God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

"God does not appear in the modern market. For most economists this is as it should be. It is in no way necessary, according to modern economic theory, to...

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Matthew as Story: Second Edition

This work uses literary (narrative) criticism to explore the world of the evangelist Matthew. The focus is on the plot of the gospel story, with discussions...

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Israel's Praise: Doxology against Idolatry and Ideology

Atgues that, rightly practiced, the Psalms of Israel make available an evangelical world of Yahweh's sovereignty—a world marked by justice, righteousness, mercy, peace, and compassion.

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life: Revised and Expanded Edition

Among the topics treated are: Christian ethics as community ethics Charting the moral life Elements of character formation Character and social structure...

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To Love as God Loves: Conversations with the Early Church

Being a Christian means learning to love with God's love. But God's love is not a warm feeling in the pit of the stomach. It has definite characteristics we...

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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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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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