Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Israel's Messiah and the People of God
A Vision for Messianic Jewish Covenant Fidelity
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Israel's Messiah and the People of God presents a rich and diverse selection of essays by theologian Mark Kinzer, whose work constitutes a pioneering step in Messianic Jewish theology. Including several pieces never before published, this collection illuminates Kinzer's thought on topics such as Oral...
An Evangelical Social Gospel?
Finding God's Story in the Midst of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Jesus taught that love for others is the path to God, that you can't love God if you don't love your neighbor. In An Evangelical Social Gospel?, Tim Suttle shows how the exaggerated individualism of American culture distorts the gospel and weakens the church. He reaches back a full century to the...
The Mind and the Machine
What It Means to Be Human and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called "Singularity" when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person--something that might be...
Downstream
Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia is a mosaic combining nature writing, fly-fishing narrative, memoir, and philosophical and spiritual inquiry. Fly-fishing narratives and fragments of memoir provide the narrative arc for exploring relationships between...
Becoming Divine
An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Some have called it the essence of sin, others the depth of salvation. Regardless of one's evaluation of it, however, deification throughout Western history has been a part of human aspiration. From the ancient pharaohs to modern transhumanists, people have envisioned their own divinity. These visionaries...
The Prayer
68 Words that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
How can sixty-eight words change the world? Seems impossible. An even greater mystery, these words come in the form of a prayer. Christopher Levan shows how early Christians used what we now call The Lord's Prayer as a building block for their movement. It was from these sixty-eight words that they...
Le-maʿan Ziony
Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
An international array of twenty-six scholars contributes twenty-one essays to honor Ziony Zevit (American Jewish University), one of the foremost biblical scholars of his generation. The breadth of the honoree is indicated by the breadth of coverage in these twenty-one articles, with seven each in the categories of history and archaeology, Bible, and Hebrew (and Aramaic) language.
Confronting Religious Absolutism
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy provide the conceptual foundations of theocracy, which is to say religiously-based totalitarianism. These absolutist doctrines emerge for the very first time among the Victorians: they are not ancient beliefs at all. They appear in the 19th century, right...
The Confrontational Wit of Jesus
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Jesus did not die to save us from God. He died because the Romans did not tolerate charismatic teachers who attracted a lively following. Jesus attracted that following through his personal compassion, his confrontational inclusivity, and his skill in using laughter as a nonviolent weapon of mass...
Confronting Religious Violence
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West. Who converted whom was never entirely clear: the empire did stop feeding people to the lions for public entertainment; but Christianity was theologically corrupted by its...
Confronting a Controlling God
Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is all-controlling, then human control is divinely sanctioned....
Reasons for the Seasons
Meditations for Living Meaningfully the Christian Year
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Do you ever find yourself drowning in secularization and commercialization, being pulled under as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas intermingle and fly by in a frantic blur? Have you ever wondered if there is any way to reclaim the true meaning of such seasons as Advent and Lent, and be helped...
Writing the Icon of the Heart
In Silence Beholding
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
The subtitle of Maggie Ross's new book captures its essence, for it is about silence and our need to behold God. Beholding is a notion that we are in danger of losing. It is often lost in translation, even by the NRSV and the Jerusalem Bible. Beholding needs to be recovered both in theology and practice....