Author: Robert P. Erickse
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: betrayal
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1999-01-05
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0800629310
ISBN-13: 9780800629311

A sweeping historical examination of the often-neglected roles that Christian churches played in the Third Reich, this outstanding volume presents original research on Christian attitudes and responses to Hitler’s persecution of the Jews. Probing the churches’ history, institutional structures, teachings, and actions of prominent church people and theologians, leading historians tell the story of Christian involvement from the rise of the Nazi party to the post-World War II period. They document the general support of Christians for Hitler and his program, and they detail the range

Author: James Echol
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: dream
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 1991-04-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0800636856
ISBN-13: 9780800636852

Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s epic speech, and nearly fifty years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott, seven leading religious and theological voices from the African American and multi-cultural community assess the past impact and present import of King’s bold, yet in many respects unfulfilled, vision.

Author: Fortress Press Fortress Pre
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: common, revised, lectionary, preaching, texts, prayers, proposed, consultation
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0800634845
ISBN-13: 9780800634841

A three-year pattern of lectionary readings has come into widespread use over the past generation within many churches. Since its release in 1992 the three-year Revised Common Lectionary has had a significant influence ecumenically on worship and its preparation. Now the ecumenical consultation responsible for the Revised Common Lectionary is releasing a set of proposed prayers specifically designed for use with the calendar of readings in the RCL. The Consultation on Common Texts sought to prepare a truly ecumenical set of prayers that represent the full spectrum of Christian tradition in all

Author: Granger E. Westberg
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: loss, problem, approach, constructive, grief
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1979-06-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0800611144
ISBN-13: 9780800611149

Many people experience grief as the result of loss. This book describes what happens to us whenever we lose someone or something important. We all need a better understanding of the small griefs in li

Author: James H. Burtne
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: future, ethics, morality, consequences
Number of Pages: 173
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0800630920
ISBN-13: 9780800630928

How can Christians think responsibly about ethical matters, and in what way can they make moral claims in a largely non-Christian society? How can people engaged in serious moral disagreement be brought into constructive conversation? James Burtness addresses these questions in five steps. He first describes the connections and disjunctions between faith and ethics. He then discusses morality as a social phenomenon. In the heart of the book, he analyzes four options for doing Christian ethics: dontology, situationism, character ethics, and teleology. Burtness then advocates for a version of te

Authors:Jurgen Moltmann,  Margaret Kohl,
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: christ, jesus, way
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1995-08-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0800628268
ISBN-13: 9780800628260

The Way of Jesus Christ discusses the following topics: 1. The symbol of the way embodies the aspect of process and brings out christology’s alignment towards its goal. This symbol can comprehend Christ’s way from his birth in the Spirit and his baptism in the Spirit to his self-surrender on Golgotha. It also makes it possible to understand the path of Christ as the way leading from his resurrection to his parousia-the way he takes in the Spirit to Israel, to the nations, and into the breadth and depth of the cosmos. 2. The symbol of the way makes us aware that every human christol

Authors:Francis Schussler Fiorenza,  John P. Galvi,
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publisher
Keywords: systematic, theology, vol, perspectives, roman, catholic
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-05-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0800624610
ISBN-13: 9780800624613