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Introduction to Christian Liturgy

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Release Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012

Designed as a general introduction to Christian liturgy, this book explores the meaning, history, and practice of worship in Eastern and Western, Catholic and Protestant traditions... read more

Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

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Release Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies... read more

Dem Dry Bones: Preaching, Death, and Hope

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Release Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012

In an age when the so-called prosperity gospel holds sway in many Christian communities or the good news of Christ is reduced to feel-good bromides... read more

The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Release Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so... read more

The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church's Response, Second Edition

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Release Date: Saturday, September 1, 2012

In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine... read more

Ministry with Persons with Mental Illness and Their Families

Release Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Those who are afflicted as well as those who are adversely affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance... read more

Evangelism in the Inventive Age

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Release Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2012

This item is part of Inventive Age series

We live in changing times of significant cultural change. In the Inventive Age (the cultural turning following the Agrarian, Industrial, and Information ages)... read more

The Practice of Prophetic Imagination: Preaching an Emancipating Word

Release Date: Sunday, January 1, 2012

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "a contestation between narratives." If the dominant narrative of our time... read more

Proclamation and Celebration: Preaching on Christmas, Easter, and Other Festivals

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Release Date: Sunday, January 1, 2012

This item is part of Fortress Resources for Preaching series

Proclamation and Celebration focuses homiletically on the six principal festivals of the church year: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity... read more

The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship

Release Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Premier liturgical theologian Gordon Lathrop argues that far too often liturgy, preaching, and liturgical theology are informed by naïve and outdated exegesis. In another fully original... read more