Peter J. Paris
Philosophy
“Agape Ethics will be warmly welcomed by theologians, ethicists, philosophers, and all who have ever longed for a theory of morality and ethics that would be inclusive of both human and nonhuman life. Scholars will be pleased with Greenway's endeavor to paint a compelling portrait of the way modern science, philosophy, and theology have diminished the moral realm of life by their complicity with what he calls 'scientism,' the claim that reality pertains only to that which science can explain. In short, Agape Ethics is a creative venture from beginning to end, and the beauty of its eloquence will sustain the interest of all who are seized by its inclusive moral appeal.”
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The authors of this book have launched a compelling conversation about the relation of the Bible to Christian ethics that is most relevant for this present epoch known as the Anthropocene. Its readers will be both enlightened and challenged by their claim that the biblical ethos of community can and should guide our many and varied contemporary struggles for social justice. Undoubtedly, teachers and students around the world will be greatly inspired by this extraordinary book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Writing from within a matrix of hope and despair the author of this book, an African American scholar and preacher, reflects on his life's experience and work among people who are both resistant and resilient. Drawing upon the resources of ethnography, storytelling, history, literature, philosophy, and theology he analyzes and describes the pathos of black suffering from the time of slavery up to the present day. This perceptive meditation on the experience of suffering and hope will inspire all readers to think and work more diligently for a better world.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book challenges all persons of goodwill to reassess their moral presumptions about sexuality. Is sexuality singular or plural? Why have religious organizations found conversations about sexual justice issues so controversial and frightening? What capacities are needed to love and do justice to sexuality minorities? Well reasoned, challenging answers to these and many other related questions are provided by the authors of this excellent book. Clearly, this is not a book for the close-minded traditionalist.”
Breaking Through the Plate Glass Window—Prophetic Fragments
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book comprises a scholar-pastor’s theological and ethical reflections on his vocational journey in two highly racialized American cities. In solidarity with teachers and peers who share his quest for racial justice, Michael Granzen concludes this insightful treatise with five short essays by colleagues, including his wife. All who are concerned about our nation’s racial divide will benefit greatly from the practical wisdom contained in this excellent book.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Contrary to the views of many white Americans, African Americans have always known that the Bible provides no support for either white supremacy or black inferiority. Thus, motivated by the murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020, a group of black biblical scholars, historians, ethicists, theologians, and homileticians decided to write this impressive book of essays to demonstrate how the Bible addresses racism and the struggle for racial justice in America. In differing ways, every essay is an enlightening experience.”
Fortress Introduction to Black Church History
History & Biography
“This book will be welcomed by all who seek a concise, readable history of the origins and growth of African American denominationalism in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Its format makes it an excellent guide for both adult reading and youth study groups.”
Theology
“"Amber Oduyoye is Africa's leading woman theologian. In this book we meet a woman of faith reflecting in a scholarly and meditative way on Christianity in Africa. Learned in both the Western and African theological traditions, Professor Oduyoye brings constructive criticism to bear on each in the interest of promoting a wider community of wholeness.”
In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality
History & Biography
“Anybody concerned about the economic, social, and gender inequalities anywhere in the world will benefit from the vision and the transformational impact of Martin Luther King Jr.'s exemplary leadership, which is carefully analyzed in this book by a diverse group of scholars, religious leaders, and activists.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This thought-provoking book should be read by all who are interested in understanding the major paradigms that have shaped both the moral development of African-American leaders and their respective visions of the good society. This book not only introduces a new voice in African-American scholarship. It also sets forth the basic elements for significant interdisciplinary dialogue among moral-development theorists, Christian social ethicists, and moral philosophers.”
Our Hearts Are Restless Till They Find Their Rest in Thee
“This perceptive book contains sermons and other writings by the late Coleman B. Brown that reveal his exemplary spirit, rhetorical wisdom, and extraordinary skills as a memorable teacher and mentor. Readers will discover here three of Coleman’s former students along with his son and a colleague offering testimonies that they graciously pass on to others with the hope that they will discern and embrace many new insights pertaining to our common life.”
Theology
“This book should be read by all who have ever reflected on the relationship between the suffering of Jesus and that of African Americans. While the author aims at changing many of our theological presuppositions about suffering, she also offers us an alternative theology capable of enhancing the spirituality of all suffering peoples. In this book we encounter a new womanist theologian whose constructive work grows out of a deep commitment to Christian faith and ministry.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Lays the foundation for a postcolonial liberation theology and prophetic rage against such continuing forms of injustice as racism, poverty, militarism, violence, nihilism, materialism, imperialism, mass incarceration, and more. Seminarians, clergy, and laypersons concerned about justice will find this book to be a most useful guide for their social thought and action.”
Theology
“All theologians, clergy, and seminarians will want to read this book because it launches a new era in a tradition that has long considered moral virtue ethics as incompatible with its basic principles. After responding to each objection the author constructs a moral virtue ethics that is largely implicit in the Reformed theologies of John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Karl Barth, as well as the church’s confessions and social witness policies. Thus, this book addresses a long-standing lacuna in the tradition and marks a clear advance in the ecumenical dialogue between Protestants and Catholics.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This morally challenging book by Rebecca Todd Peters should be read by all who are concerned about the gross economic disparities in today’s world and what they can do to change them. Solidarity Ethics not only provides a compelling treatise on ‘solidarity’ as a theological and ethical principle but sets forth strategies for how it can be embodied by individuals and communities both here at home and far away.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book provides a compelling analysis that expands our understanding of religion by revealing its presence in cultural activities far beyond the traditional confines of churches, mosques, temples, and other sacred spaces. It demonstrates that the intensity of religious devotion is not limited to such traditional locations as churches, temples, mosques, and shrines but actually flourishes in various spheres of our cultural life, such as big business, body and sex, entertainment, sports, politics, and science and technology.”
The Future Shape of Christian Proclamation
Preaching & Worship
“In this book the editors, Cleophus LaRue and Luiz Nascimento, bring together an extraordinary global panel of scholar-preachers from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, India, the African Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Singapore, Indonesia, and Nigeria to think critically about the most appropriate ways to preach the gospel in their various contexts. Since the axis of global Christianity has moved from the Western world to the Global South, the principles for interpreting the gospel must now come from the Southern Hemisphere. That fact alone makes this book a required reading for all interested in effective ways for communicating the gospel both at home and round the world.”
History & Biography
“All who read it will be grateful to González for bringing Augustine and his works alive for contemporary readers so as to sustain the hope that his enduring influence on Christians will continue to enlighten men and women for many generations to come.”
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Punishment
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this book Richard Snyder presents a critical analysis of the spirit of punishment in our culture and how it is nurtured by the Protestant ethic. He also describes several models of justice that strive to effect genuine reconciliation between the victims and perpetrators of crime as well as their respective families and society at large. All who read this book will be challenged to rethink their assumptions about our current forms of punishment. They will also be persuaded to seek a better way.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
History & Biography
The Social Teaching of the Black Churches
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
The Spirituality of African Peoples
World Religions
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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