Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Dazzling Bodies
Rethinking Spirituality and Community Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Spirituality is always developed and nurtured in community, and communities have particular spiritualities. Dazzling Bodies promotes practices and performances as the basis for individual and community spiritual formation by analyzing specific experiences and real-life situations in personal and corporate...
Hitler, Jesus, and Our Common Humanity
A Jewish Survivor Interprets Life, History, and the Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination. Having spent his early years trying to escape from his encounters with Nazism, Rolf Gompertz spent his later years trying to interpret the contours of evil that...
by Richard Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
According to Hebrews, the Son of God appeared to break the power of him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. What does it mean to be enslaved, all our lives, to the fear of death? And why is this fear described...
Unclean
Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness...
Is the Atheist My Neighbor?
Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Do atheists hate God? Many Christians seem to think so. For the last three centuries Christians have widely assumed that atheism is always a result of a rebellious, sinful rejection of God. According to this view, at some level atheists really do know there is a God, but they sinfully suppress this...
Planted
A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
A Bird in the Hand is not a how to book, but a how so book in which the reader is invited to travel with Leah Kostamo on the wild ride of salmon saving, stranger welcoming, and God worshiping as she and her husband help establish the first Christian environmental center in Canada. Avoiding simplistic...
Faith, Form, and Fashion
Classical Reformed Theology and Its Postmodern Critics
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke. Each proposes that doctrinal and systematic theology should be recast in the light of postmodernity. No longer can Christian theology be foundational, or have a stable metaphysical and epistemological...
by Craig S. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A helpfully concise commentary on Paul's letter to the early Christians in Rome, which the Apostle wrote just a few years before the outbreak of Nero's persecution. Keener examines each paragraph for its function in the letter as a whole, helping the reader follow Paul's argument. Where relevant,...
Construing the Cross
Type, Sign, Symbol, Word, Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This book reconsiders ways in which the cross of Christ was construed before "atonement theories" narrowed the categories. The "typology" of Passover is explored as probably the very first way in which Christians came to understand the passion. The use of sacrificial imagery is re-examined. The significance...
Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?
The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate: Proceedings from the 2011 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In 1958, American historian of religion Morton Smith made an astounding discovery in the Mar Saba monastery in Jerusalem. Copied into the back of a seventeenth-century book was a lost letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) that contained excerpts from a longer version of the Gospel...
Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspectives
Proceedings from the 2013 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
North American study of the Christian Apocrypha is known principally for its interest in using noncanonical texts to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus, and for its support of Walter Bauer's theory on the development of early Christianity. The papers in this volume, presented in September...
Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision
Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Zizek, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The apostle Paul was a man of many journeys. We are usually familiar with the geographical ones he made in his own time. This volume traces others--Paul's journeys in our time, as he is co-opted or invited to travel (sometimes as abused slave, sometimes as trusted guide) with modern and recent Continental...
Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology
With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Ernst Kasemann famously claimed that apocalyptic is the mother of Christian theology. J. Louis Martyn's radical interpretation of the overarching significance of apocalyptic in Paul's theology has pushed Kasemann's claim further and deeper. Still, despite the recognition that apocalyptic is at the...
The Spirit among the dissenters
Other Voices in Understanding the Spirit of God
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
This work examines the development of a "dissenting" perspective on the emerging doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Post-Reformation Protestant thought. By "dissenting," the author means "beyond the mainstream of thought, sometimes affirming but expanding orthodox positions, but...