Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Where the Water Goes Around
Beloved Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Where the Water Goes Around is a biblical and political reading of Detroit over the course of three decades by an activist pastor. Detroit is a place where one can take the temperature of the world. Think on the rise of Fordism and auto-love, the Arsenal of Democracy, the practice of the sit-down...
Between Kin and Cosmopolis
An Ethic of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national...
The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being
On the Threshold between the Aesthetic and the Religious
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to beauty among some who proclaim their advanced aesthetic authenticity....
Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness
An Essay on Origins, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Many philosophers since Hegel have been disturbed by the thought that philosophy inevitably favors sameness over otherness or identity over difference. Originally published at a time when the issue was not so widely discussed in the English-speaking world, William Desmond here offers a constructive...
by Andy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
In Holiness and the Missio Dei, Andy Johnson takes the reader on a biblical journey that explores the question of what holiness or sanctification has to do with God's mission in the world. He refuses to relegate the idea of humans becoming holy to the realm of individual inward piety or legalism,...
Religion and the Social Sciences
Conversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
More often than not it's a class in the social sciences that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious traditions, institutions, and convictions undercut them? Or can a modern social scientific approach deepen faith's commitments, making...
The Vocation of Theology Today
A Festschrift for David Ford
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
What is the task of theology in a complex religious and secular world? What are theologians called to contribute to society, the churches, and the academy? Can theology be both fully faithful to Christian tradition and Scripture, and fully open to the challenges of the twenty-first century? In this...
by Walter E. Massey
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The contributors to this book address the theme of educating ethical leaders for the twenty-first century. They represent a wide range of fields, including philosophy, theology, law, science, and medicine. They all share the belief, however, that ethical leadership education is necessary in order...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Radical Orthodoxy Annual Review examines emerging agendas in contemporary theology and philosophy. Today, in an era of biotechnology and a growing ecological consciousness, it is rapidly becoming clear that the key question for our times is how to make sense of the nature and significance of life....
Decolonizing Preaching
Decolonizing Preaching The Pulpit as Postcolonial Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners. In Decolonizing Preaching, Sarah Travis argues that sermons have a role in shaping the identity and ethics of listeners by helping them formulate responses to empire and colonization....
Dreams, Doubt, and Dread
The Spiritual in Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities...
Postcolonial Public Theology
Faith, Scientific Rationality, and Prophetic Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Postcolonial Public Theology is a tour de force--theological reflection transformed by encounter with the most compelling intellectual discourses of our time. It offers prophetic challenge to the hegemony of economic globalization. Evolutionary science's encounter with life's limit questions requires...
The Cave and the Butterfly
An Intercultural Theory of Interpretation and Religion in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This study offers an intercultural theory of interpretation and religion. It does so by bringing Western and East Asian traditions into dialogue regarding the nature of interpretation. The result of this innovative study is a theory of interpretation which integrates the socially embodied dimension...
Karl Barth
God’s Word in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
In this creative and original book, Paul S. Chung interprets Karl Barth as a theologian of divine action. Chung appreciates Barth's dogmatic theology as both contextual and irregular, and he retrieves the neglected sides of Barth's thought with respect to political radicalism, Israel, natural theology, and religious pluralism.