Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics
Essays on God and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics. The philosophical underpinnings of our theological traditions have cracked under the weight of modern scrutiny. Robert Jenson is a theologian who has embraced the critique of inherited metaphysics, but who then finds contained within the gospel...
Keeping Faith
An Ecumenical Commentary on the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith of the United Methodist Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Keeping Faith offers resources to help Christians reclaim the importance of doctrine and thereby know and love well God and God's creation. Although it gives particular attention to the Wesleyan and Methodist tradition, it is of necessity an ecumenical effort. Neither the Wesleyans nor the Methodists...
Misrecognitions
Gillian Rose and the Task of Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This collection brings together prominent thinkers from numerous disciplines to address the legacy of Gillian Rose for political theology today. Rose's work is notorious for its eclectic range, difficult style, and iconoclastic defiance of the conventions of postmodern critical theory. The theologians,...
by Bryan P. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
How do persons come to faith in our time? Are they active seekers or brought in by others? Is it a journey? Or is it a more sudden conversion? Are spouses, relatives, and friends most important to the process? Do clergy matter? What sorts of values, practices, and lifestyles tend to change for those...
Pentecostals in the 21st Century
Identity, Beliefs, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
A little over one hundred years ago the Holy Spirit breathed a fresh awakening into little communities in Topeka, Kansas (1901) and then on Azusa Street in California (1906). Over the past century this spiritual awakening has touched every country on the globe. By 2014 there were 631 million Pentecostals...
Saving the World and Healing the Soul
Heroism and Romance in Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Saving the World and Healing the Soul treats the heroic and redemptive trials of Jason Bourne, Bruce Wayne, Bella Swan, and Katniss Everdeen. The Bourne films, Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the Twilight saga, and the Hunger Games series offer us stories to live into, to make connection between our personal loves and trials and a good order of the world.
What in God’s Name Are You Eating?
How Can Christians Live and Eat Responsibly in Today’s Global Village?
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
How you eat affects the planet--and everyone else on it. What you eat might literally cost the earth. But it has implications for your health, the grower or producer, and the way you think about the world. What in God's Name Are You Eating? is full of questions and information to help you and those...
Oikos: God’s Big Word for a Small Planet
A Theology of Economy, Ecology, and Ecumeny
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
How you spend your time and money controls what happens on this planet . . . Planet Earth and its people are in danger. We face ongoing economic and ecological crises. These will deepen unless all of God's people begin to act as one global community. Natural resources are diminishing and the economic...
How Not to Kill a Muslim
A Manifesto of Hope for Christianity and Islam in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.5 billion people. Tension between them exists throughout the world and is increasing here in North America. In How Not to Kill a Muslim, Dr. Joshua Graves provides a practical subversive theological framework for...
Before Auschwitz
What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
What can Christian theology in North America learn from the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s? This book explores an explosion of scholarship in recent decades that has reopened questions once thought to be settled about the relationships between Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
An increase in secularization throughout the Western world has resulted in Christian communities finding themselves in a new context: emerging as a minority group. What does this changing landscape mean for existing Christian communities? Are there biblical or historical precedents for this situation?...
The Future of John Wesley’s Theology
Back to the Future with the Apostle Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
This book approaches the future of John Wesley's theology in terms of a preferred future by looking back to the Apostle Paul. In a comparison of Wesley's theology with the writings of St. Paul, Tex Sample maintains that Wesleyans tend to read Paul through Wesley, but that in the future we need to...
Human Nature, Interest, and Power
A Critique of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book criticizes three basic concepts in Reinhold Niebuhr's social thought: his views of human nature, interest, and power. Attention is directed especially at the way Niebuhr's concepts lack sufficient historicity, obscure social and political dynamics, and, finally, lack adequate descriptive...
Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century
Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this volume some of the outstanding Christian scholars of our day reflect on how their minds have changed, how their academic fields have changed over the course of their careers, and the pressing issues that Christian scholars will need to address in the twenty-first century. This volume offers...