Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
by Paul Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature. It is a response to the growing wave of Christian leaders who are rejecting Christianity and becoming some of its most ardent critics, often supported by a plethora of new organizations arising to encourage such people to cut ties to their...
Christ-Centered Leadership
The Incarnational Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
If a leader is a Christian, what difference does it make? Giant strides have been made in secular leadership theory toward a Christian viewpoint. Priority is now given to character as well as competence, accountability as well as power, transformation as well as transaction, and servanthood as well...
Christ-Centered Higher Education
Memory, Meaning, and Momentum for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
If the Christ-centered college or university did not exist, would it have to be invented? Back in the 1950s, the answer was in doubt. With few exceptions, Christian colleges wallowed in defensive self-doubt and divisive competition while under attack from the rising public sector. Students of American...
When God Laughs with Us
The Lighter Side of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Lighten up! Most of us take ourselves too seriously. Christian leaders, in particular, are tempted by the position they hold, or the power they wield, to lose touch with their humanity, become arrogant, and alienate their followers. But what about our tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot, time...
The Succession Principle
How Leaders Make Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Succession is the hot topic in leadership development, but the subject has rarely been addressed in Christian literature. As a college, university, and seminary president who experienced three successions in leadership, David McKenna is eminently qualified to speak on the subject. He begins by introducing...
The World in the Shadow of God
An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In The World in the Shadow of God, Ephraim Radner argues for a vigorous Christian natural theology and insists that such a theology must, of necessity, be performed poetically. The peculiar character of such a theology is found in its disclosing of the natural limits that indicate indirectly the impinging...
by Ephraim Radner
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This is an introduction to thinking theologically about the Christian church--what is known as ecclesiology. The book covers background questions of conception, history, differences among separated Christian churches, and several modern approaches to the study of the church. It also introduces readers...
Church, Society, and the Christian Common Good
Essays in Conversation with Philip Turner
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Philip Turner's contributions as a leader and thinker in Christian missions and social ethics are here engaged by an array of friends and colleagues. Turner's scholarly and clerical career spans a key era of transition in American and world Christianity, and his thinking and teaching about the intersection...
Struck from Behind
My Memories of God
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Struck from Behind is a memoir--but not the usual narrative of events. James Howell tells intriguing stories from childhood, romantic life, travel, friendships, tragedies, and wonders, and how God was there, although unnoticed or uninvited at the time. By sharing in retrospect how he now understands...
Worshipful
Living Sunday Morning All Week
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren't in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possible to live in the world--doing the dishes, listening to music, being stuck in traffic, enmeshed in...
Leadership in the Way of the Cross
Forging Ministry from the Crucible of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book is for people who are serious about leading people--men and women who have accepted big challenges, who have passed through the fire of tough decisions, who have acknowledged they at times have failed, and have recovered for the next challenge, but do not want to repeat the past. The thesis...
Suffer the Children
How We Can Help Improve the Lives of the World’s Impoverished Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
We all say that we care about children. We all know that millions of children around the world, including in the United States, are suffering physically, materially, and emotionally and are unable to reach their full potential. Moreover, their material deprivation and physical ills often prevent them...
Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, Volume 1
From Asia Minor to Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Hymns and the music the church sings are tangible means of expressing worship. And while worship is one of, if not the, central functions of the church along with mission, service, education, justice, and compassion, and occupies a prime focus of our churches, a renewed sense of awareness to our theological...
The Making of the Self
Ancient and Modern Asceticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas, and other early Christian texts. This...