Cascade Books imprint: 771 books

The Messenger

Friendship, Faith, and Finding One’s Way

by Douglas John Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

This is a book about the importance of mentors in the lives of the young. But rather than developing the theme of mentoring theoretically, Douglas John Hall demonstrates its significance quite personally, autobiographically. In his twentieth year and hoping to study music professionally, Hall met...

What Christianity Is Not

An Exercise in “Negative” Theology

by Douglas John Hall
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

What really is Christianity? If all the religious packaging in which it is wrapped were removed, what would remain? These were Bonhoeffer's questions, and they must be ours today--even more urgently! For in many quarters Christianity is being so narrowly identified with some of its parts, cultural...

Waiting for Gospel

An Appeal to the Dispirited Remnants of Protestant “Establishment”

by Douglas John Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012

Christianity, as faith centered in Jesus as the Christ came to be called, got a foothold in the world, and for a vital and vocal minority changed the world, because it proclaimed a message that awakened men and women to possibilities for human life that they had either lost or never entertained. That...

Deep Church Rising

The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy

by Andrew G. Walker, Robin A. Parry
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

The major cultural changes in Western societies since the Reformation have created a serious challenge for the church. Modernity in particular has been inhospitable to Christian orthodoxy and many have been tempted to reject classical versions of the faith. This has led to a division within churches...

A Revitalization of Images

Theology and Human Creativity

by Gregory C. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

The philosopher, theologian, and biblical scholar Austin Farrer (1904-1968) highlighted in his various writings the central role that images play in the interpretation of biblical writings, the construction of theological arguments, and the descriptions of the Christian spiritual life. Theologians...

Christianity and Religious Plurality

Historical and Global Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

Over the past two centuries the Christian faith has spread to all continents. Although more global than ever, Christians are religious minorities in most societies. Religious freedom is hardly universal.   In the past fifty years, millions of people have been uprooted from their traditional homelands...

The God Who Is

The Christian God in a Pluralistic World

by Hans Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Who is the God in whom Christians believe? Is he just a figment of the human mind as critics of religion claimed in the nineteenth century and as crusading atheists assert again today? Since the beginnings of rational thought the brightest minds among humanity have attempted to assert that God does...

The Great Tradition—A Great Labor

Studies in Ancient-Future Faith

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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

At a recent conference entitled Ancient Wisdom--Anglican Futures, theologians from across the denominational spectrum considered the question, What does it mean to inhabit the 'Great Tradition' authentically? As an expression of what C. S. Lewis called Deep Church, Anglicanism offers a test case of...

The Penumbra of Ethics

The Gifford Lectures of V. A. Demant with Critical Commentary and Assessment

by V. A. Demant, Ian S. Markham
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018

Rev. Vigo Auguste Demant (1893-1983) was a significant theologian and social commentator of the first half of the twentieth century. This book contains his up-until-now unpublished Gifford Lectures, in which Demant provides cultural analysis as he attempts to address why humanity struggles so much...

The Church Has Left the Building

Faith, Parish, and Ministry in the Twenty-First Century

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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

The origin of the phrase "the church has left the building" lies with Elvis. In order to clear halls of his riotous fans after concerts, it was announced that "Elvis has left the building." Here, the expression highlights intense change within the church. Not only does the church...

Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth

Theological Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien

by Jeffrey L. Morrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

J. R. R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, brings to his work a great treasure--his Christian faith. Tolkien's literary works are so popular in part because, in some sense, they pertain to the real world. This present volume is an attempt to understand better the...

The Sacred Art of Marriage

52 Creative Ways to Grow Your Married Life

by David Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016

The Sacred Art of Marriage explores married life as an art studio with fifty-two tools to creatively craft your spiritual life together. Drawing upon the fourth chapter of The Rule of St. Benedict, this book offers married couples fifty-two weeks of spiritual practices and ancient wisdom to deepen...
by Abigail Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a "white comma / in the breath of space." Crocuses are "ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects." The ocean is "a...

Heaven All Around Us

Discovering God in Everyday Life

by Simon Carey Holt
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018

If living with a deep awareness of God in our lives is important, how do we do it without moving to a monastery? How do we discern and respond to God amidst the places, routines, and relationships of our everyday lives? In this book, we go in search of God's presence in homes and neighborhoods, supermarkets...
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