Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Holy Curiosity
Cultivating the Creative Spirit in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
One passage, two verses, four words. As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an expert on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact...
Into Your Hand
Confronting Good Friday
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This set of seven sermons follows the traditional church sequence of "The Seven Last Words of the Cross," utterances that the gospel narratives place on the lips of Jesus. These utterances are drawn from the several gospel narratives. In the liturgical life of the church, however, the sequence...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Those who serve as truth-tellers in the church, like those who listen to the truth-telling in the church, are a mix of yearning and fearfulness, of receptiveness and collusion. In the end, the work of truth-telling is not to offer a new package of certitudes that displaces old certitudes. This truth...
David and His Theologian
Literary, Social, and Theological Investigations of the Early Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Throughout Walter Brueggemann's career, he has repeatedly found his way back to the David and royal traditions. From some of his earliest articles and essays to monographs, commentaries, and sermons, he has explored this rich field in literary, social, and theological depth. As he has said, My preoccupation...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Contents 1 The Practice of Homefulness 2 A Myriad of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions 3 Bragging about the Right Stuff 4 A Culture of Life and the Politics of Death 5 Elisha as the Original Pentecost Guy 6 The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee 7 The Non-negotiable Price of Sanity 8 The Family as World-Maker
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Contents 1. Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of the Judges 2. A Poem of Summons (Isa 55:1-3), a Narrative of Resistance (Dan 1:1-21) 3. Psalms 9-10: A Counter to Conventional Social Reality 4. Prophetic Imagination toward Social Flourishing 5. A Royal Miracle and Its...
The God of All Flesh
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its accent. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator God loves and cares for the creation and summons creation to be in sync with the will of the creator God. This collection of essays is focused on the bodily life of the world...
The Role of Old Testament Theology in Old Testament Interpretation
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous collections to which the author has contributed that were designed to honor senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study. Each of these essays reflects a distinct intention depending on the nature of the original collection in...
Divine Presence amid Violence
Contextualizing the Book of Joshua
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
To pursue the matter of revelation in context, I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reason for taking up this text is to deal with the often asked and troublesome question: What shall we do with all the violence and bloody war that is done in the Old Testament...
A Pathway of Interpretation
The Old Testament for Pastors and Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts. He offers both advice for the interpreter as well as examples of working with different sorts of passages: from narratives, prophecies, and Psalms. He also demonstrates how to work...
Praying the Psalms, Second Edition
Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In this thoroughly revised edition of a classic in spirituality, Walter Brueggemann guides the reader into a thoughtful and moving encounter with the Psalms. This new edition includes a revised text, new notes, and new bibliography. The movement and meeting of God with us is indeed a speech-event...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness. In this exciting collection, Brueggemann finds that when we admit we are dust, we can be liberated. Why? Because we are free from acting...
Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen
The Resurrected Messiah, the Jewish People, and the Land of Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The good news (euangelion) of the crucified and risen Messiah was proclaimed first to Jews in Jerusalem, and then to Jews throughout the land of Israel. In Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen, Mark Kinzer argues that this initial audience and geographical setting of the euangelion is integral to...
Searching Her Own Mystery
Nostra Aetate, the Jewish People, and the Identity of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Vatican II's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) transformed the Catholic view of the Jewish people and the Jewish religious tradition. Asserting that the Church discovers her link to the "stock of Abraham" when "searching her own mystery,"...