Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
The Hermeneutics of Tradition
Explorations and Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Hermeneutics of Tradition presents the latest scholarship on tradition as a concept and reality in the development of Christian cultures. One aim is to show that traditions are upheld, communicated, and developed within a recognizable set of interpretive guidelines (or rules) and that analysis...
Unexpected Jesus
The Gospel as Surprise
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
How can Christians live with a surprising God? How can we know and trust God without taming God or reducing God to an idol? Is knowing God the same thing as being open to God? Is God's freedom to act independently of our knowing him actually how we know him most genuinely and deeply? In Unexpected...
A Pacifist Way of Knowing
John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology, editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather the scattered writings of Yoder on the theme of the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing. In them, they find the beginnings of a pacifist theology of...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Of very few people can it be legitimately said that their work fundamentally reconfigured the landscape of two theological disciplines. But if there is anyone in recent memory who would be worthy of such an accolade, it is John Howard Yoder. The two disciplines are, of course, theological ethics and...
Revolutionary Christianity
The 1966 South American Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The ambitious and accessible essays collected in this volume were presented by John Howard Yoder during an extensive visit to South America in 1966. Reflecting and also subverting the acknowledged faddish attempt to address the revolutionary nature of Christianity, these lectures provide an illuminating...
Sing Us a Song of Joy
Saying what We Believe in an Age of Unbelief
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Out on the barren margins of Babylonian exile, the great Psalmist suggests their captors are actually asking for a song of joy. Imagine that. Is it possible to sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? Christians today find themselves caught up in the massive sweep of secularizing culture. Do we have...
Toward an Anabaptist Political Theology
Law, Order, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
A. James Reimer's (1942-2010) theopolitical project, intended to be a fully theologically conceptualized political theology, offers a constructive and creative contribution to this burgeoning field of theological inquiry. Reimer's thesis for this theologically derived politics focuses on the necessity...
by Larry Helyer, Ed Cyzewski
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Readers of the Bible rarely, if ever, turn to the book of Revelation for comfort or assurance in hard times. In fact, many popular interpretations of Revelation today focus on predicting a terrifying future that leaves many unsettled and disconnected from John's original message to the seven churches,...
Giving the Devil His Due
Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were...
The Role of Death in Life
A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The relation between life and death is a subject of perennial relevance for all human beings--and indeed, the whole world and the entire universe, in as much as, according to the saying of ancient Greek philosophy, all things that come into being pass away. Yet it is also a topic of increasing complexity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound meditations on the intertwined themes of memory, prayer, sainthood, the irony of sin, theological and...
Reading Karl Barth
A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Karl Barth's 1922 The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most famous, notorious, and influential works in twentieth-century theology and biblical studies. It is also a famously and notoriously difficult and enigmatic work, especially as its historical context becomes more and more foreign. In this...
Theology, University, Humanities
Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book discusses the relationship between theology and the humanities and their shared significance within contemporary universities. Taking up this complex question, twelve scholarly authors analyze the connections between theology and philosophy, history, scholarly literature, sociology, and...
Echoes of a Voice
We Are Not Alone
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills. Three darkening thunderclouds rising higher and higher on the horizon. An electric atmosphere, a quickening, light cooling breeze. A slight shiver and the boy wonders, Am I being pursued by the Father, the Son, and...