Larry Rasmussen
History & Biography
“English-language audiences have had extensive exposure to Holocaust studies. Thousands of works have investigated how a nation, then teacher to the world, could have descended to the depths of unspeakable evil. But English-language audiences have not had, until now, documentation and analysis of a significant movement in the Protestant churches that contributed to the theological and cultural production of that evil. Mary Solberg, in A Church Undone, provides previously untranslated documents for close-in contact with the German Christian Faith Movement. Until religious perversion of truth and humanity are ended, the cautionary tale of this volume remains relevant. I highly commend careful attention to it and thank Fortress Press for making it available.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Economics has famously been called "the dismal science." Who knew, then, that a book about building a moral economy could be engaging, inviting, inspiring, constructive, pastoral, prophetic, therapeutic, and rich with stories? This one is, and it's Moe-Lobeda's finest writing and most important project to date.”
Christian Living
“A cascade of stories beautifully written, deeply personal, and refreshingly human. They invite us to create a narrative together for a transformed people fitted to a changed earth. Many of us have been waiting for this book. While it crisscrosses most everything, it is concretely about transformed churches, seminaries, and interfaith communities gathering to practice the future. Pass it on!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“With a pastor's touch and clear prose, Brocker narrates his own conversion to Earth as a follower of Jesus. Get the book and gather some friends for collective study and response, for what could be more important for the coming years than to quit our lives as 'a prodigal species' and truly come home to God's Earth?”
History & Biography
“We have long known that Eberhard Bethge was Dietrich Bonhoeffer's alter ego. We have also known that he chose to serve the legacy of Bonhoeffer rather than foreground his own life and contributions. That modesty, though genuine, has not served us well. Bethge was a member of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church before he met Bonhoeffer, a participant with Bonhoeffer in the Church Struggle and the conspiracy against Hitler, and a deeply engaged pastor and man-of-his-own-time for fifty years after Bonhoeffer. Now, thanks to John de Gruchy, we have the rest of the story.”
Theology
“A splendidly creative religious response to the planetary emergency that closes in upon us. These essays from voices everywhere are radical in all the right ways. May their tribe increase, quickly!”
Drawing Close, Encountering Joy
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Here is what we know. Ours is a perilous time of mass instability, with grief and lament at the loss of a beautiful world trailing everywhere. All the more important, then, to discover beauty and nurture wonder for a life of joy, even among the ruins. Janice Kirk does just that with prayers and psalms and sketches in the garb of good poetry. Read slowly in a quiet place and be fed.”
Science & Faith
“Encountering ETI, together with its predecessor, Cosmic Commons, will bring you right back to Earth and Homo sapiens. Sometimes it takes the exocentric perspective to clear the eyes, see our own habitat, and know ourselves for the first time. John Hart is a good fellow traveler and guide.”
Faith, Formation, and Decision
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Faith, Formation, and Decision is a fine primer in Christian ethics, presented in a clear readable even winsome way. I hope it finds wide circulation in congregation's and in college and seminary classes.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A wonderfully lucid treatment of what Christian ethics is, here fine-tuned to all the core themes of Luther and Lutheran traditions. The consequence is a splendid exposition of neighbor love lived in freedom for a planet in peril.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The forces shaping world Christianity are multi-racial, multi-cultural and non-Western. Future Faith presents them in highly readable chapters spanning every major short and long-term trend. While the scope and content offer something for everyone, for white Christianity in the U. S., whether evangelical or (formerly) mainline, Future Faith is simply mandatory. Take, learn, discuss, and make plans.”
Theology
“Wonderfully penned meditations on the most basic questions that Christianity-and humanity-now face. The writing stirs, and the reflections inspire.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Rarely would I commend a collection of essays as a model text for teaching and learning Christian ethics. But Gushee is so good at his craft, so clear in his method, and so helpful on the lessons drawn, that this volume is that text. For a church trying to be faithful, and for a public trying to garner what it means to be morally responsible on issues that vex us all, few are better. Exemplary work!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“While map is not territory, Inherited Land is a splendid guide to the expanding field of Religion and Ecology. Tracking the shifting contexts, complexities, and promise of Religion and Ecology will grow even more important in the days and decades ahead. These essays show the way.”
Theology
“The planet has changed dramatically since 1972. It is even more remarkable that Cobb's response holds up so well and remains a deeply probing effort to find our way to a reconstructed Christianity amid profoundly altered conditions. Cobb's fifty-year retrospective is itself a treasure that complements the original work.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This significant work, a creative approach to a theory of justice, takes us into the coherent theory of justice, biblically rooted, of the liberation perspective.”
Theology
“Liberating Nature is exactly the kind of good work that needs to be done--liberation theology done at the intersection of economy and environment, by and for affluent North Americans.”
Christian Living
“The title and subtitle are exactly right. This is 'A Conversation about Woodworking and Spirituality' in which 'sawdust flies in all directions, but the soul also takes wings.' So, reader, prepare to pause often to reflect on your own life journey as you listen to Everett's and de Gruchy's. This is wisdom beautifully communicated. The added poetry, illustrations, and photos only enhance it.”
Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin
Theology
“The proposed multi-volume series is remarkably important and timely. It comes just at the point when scientists themselves say that the planetary emergency they document must be addressed as a deeply moral and spiritual matter. Science as science cannot do that. The need for, and depth of, moral and spiritual address is now rather widely acknowledged in other quarters as well. Indeed, in four decades of teaching Christian social ethics I have never seen consensus emerge so quickly and so broadly that we must now disinter all the big human questions of origin, destiny, identity and way of life so as to take up anew the meaning-making, story-making work essential for our earthly salvation and the future of the community of life. We need a different template of truth than the one consumer capitalism has stamped on Earthly reality everywhere. And while Bill McKibben can say, ‘This is a moment for which the church was born’, it is also a moment for which the church is not well-prepared. The church must of needs think through again the essentials of its own faith and traditions if it is to play its part in helping craft viable narratives and practices for the Anthropocene. In a word, the proposed series promises to help provide what is clearly mandated by the extraordinary times in which we live and by the church’s own vocation. I enthusiastically endorse it.”
History & Biography
“''Explaining the grip of Bonhoeffer on people of different cultures and perspectives is a worthy and intriguing subject. . . . A valuable resource.''”
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