Augsburg Fortress

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict That Changed American Christianity

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen-Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus-who led different wings of a...

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What Is Christianity?: An Introduction to the Christian Religion

Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask.

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Dorothee Soelle - Mystic and Rebel: The Biography

Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003), who became a true religious provocateur...

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Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict

"John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no...

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Divine Complexity: The Rise of Creedal Christianity

Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centuries–long theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life,...

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The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective

This brief survey text tells the story of early Christianity. Cynthia White explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of...

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Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation....

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A People's History of Christianity: Byzantine Christianity, Vol 3

This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of...

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A People's History of Christianity: Modern Christianity to 1900, Vol 6

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of...

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A People's History of Christianity: Twentieth-Century Global Christianity, Vol 7

A specific focus and intent of this final volume of A People's History of Christianity is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some...

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eBook-A People's History of Christianity: Christian Origins, Vol 1

Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of...

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eBook-A People's History of Christianity:Late Ancient Christianity, Vol 2

The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline....

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Sanctorum Communio: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1

Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the first...

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Act and Being: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 2

The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with...

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Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal

Observing that Abraham Lincoln once described the United States as an "almost chosen nation," Robert Jewett offers a critical survey of the history of...

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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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The Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Thomas Müntzer: A Tragedy of Errors

Rejected in the sixteenth century by both Protestants and Catholics, yet hailed by Marxist historians as a forerunner of the Marxist revolution, this volume...

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Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King: Commemorative Edition

In this first biography of Coretta Scott King, written by her friend Octavia Vivian, the reader meets a determined young girl who grew up in Alabama and worked...

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The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Post-Holocaust Perspectives

How much did Dietrich Bonhoeffer know of the Holocaust, and what did he do to help the Jews? Should Bonhoeffer be considered one of the "Righteous among the...

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