Augsburg Fortress

Environment, Economy, and Christian Ethics: Alternative Views on Christians and Markets

Economist Alistair Young argues that environmental policy raises important ethical and theological issues around uncertainty, inequality the rights of traditional communities, and the obligation to respect nonhuman creation.

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Bodies of Peace: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence, and Witness

Covering several great Christian thinkers, this book explores how each theologians' advocacy for nonviolent resistance depends deeply upon the ecclesiology out of which it comes.

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From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard

This book not only offers a new way of approaching Kierkegaard's writings, but also shows how they might serve to illuminate and to deepen one's relationship with the divine.

Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature

With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, this volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically nec

Idols of Nations: Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism

Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers read the Bible.

The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading

This book argues that texts--even literary texts--, have an eschatology, too, a part in God's purpose for the cosmos. This book tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts.

A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics

Contemporary Lutheranism has struggled with the appropriate place of morality and character formation, as these pursuits often have been perceived as being at odds with the central Christian doctrine of justification. A Case for Character explores this problem.

Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality

Here Santmire explores the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of nature's redemption.

The Entangled Trinity: Quantum Physics and Theology

In this volume, Ernest Simmons asks what the current scientific understanding of the natural world might contribute to our reflection upon the relationship of God and the world in a Triune fashion.

Redeeming a Prison Society: A Liturgical and Sacramental Response to Mass Incarceration

The United States criminal justice system is in a state of crisis, from unprecedented rates of imprisonment and recidivism to the privatization of the prison system and the disproportionate representation of particular racial, ethnic, social, and economic groups. Amy Levad offers a Catholic perspective that directly addresses the concrete issues from a strongly interdisciplinary approach and utilizes the rich liturgical and sacramental resources of penance and Eucharist to offer a theological vision of reform.

Augustine on War and Military Service

Philip Wynn uncovers a nuanced story of Augustine's thoughts on war and military service, and gives us a more complete and complex picture of this important topic.

Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications

Daniel Finn reviews insights provided by a large number of texts on economic ethics, from the Bible and the early church, to the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, to treatments of the subject in the last century.

Redeeming Fear: A Constructive Theology for Living into Hope

In this book, Whitehead helps us find the roots of hope in the soil of our fears so that we can form lives and communities of hope in the midst of a culture of fear.

Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought

This volume gathers essays from established and emerging scholars whose work is among the most lively and innovative scholarship today.

Blessed Are the Consumers: A Fortress Digital Preview

In this Fortress Digital Preview, readers receive the opening three chapters of Sallie McFague's forthcoming Blessed Are the Consumers (March 2013).

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Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

These days sexual sin is far less about sex and far more about the misuse of power and exploitation of vulnerability. It's time to redraw the ethical map...

Ethics of Hope

For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future...

Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christ—including postcolonial, feminist, pluralist...

Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources

In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social...

Rethinking Faith: A Constructive Practical Theology

What can practical theology contribute to other theological disciplines and the church about the nature of God and the church's witness to Jesus Christ in the...