Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology
Missional Church and World Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology offers a compelling case for the need to integrate God's mission and missional church conversation with a public and post-colonial study of World Christianity. Driven by a commitment to publicly engaged theology that takes seriously the reality of Global...
by Sung Wook Chung, David L. Mathewson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
The meaning of "the millennium"--the thousand-year reign of Christ spoken of in Revelation 20--has been controversial for much of the church's history, and even the main perspectives on the matter turn out to be more variegated than is often realized. This book takes the oldest of those...
Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life
His Person, Work, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life is an understanding of Jesus as the Word of God, grounded in what can be known historically of Jesus and informed by subsequent reflection upon him, which hopes to help shape a Christian identity characterized by bounded openness. In Jesus Christ for Contemporary...
by Anthony B. Pinn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What is the nature and purpose of the Black Church? What is the relationship of the scholar of religion to the Black Church? While black churches have been a major component of the religious landscape of African American communities for centuries, little critical attention has been given to these...
America and Its Guns
A Theological Exposé
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
James Atwood contends that the thirty thousand gun deaths America suffers every year cannot be understood apart from our national myth that God has appointed America as the trustee of the civilization of the world and even Christ's light to the nations. Because these purposes are noble, and we are...
by James E. Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Gundamentalism and Where It Is Taking America is the work of James Atwood, a retired Presbyterian pastor and an avid deer hunter for half a century who has also been in the forefront of the faith community's fight for two constitutional rights: the right to keep and bear arms and the right to live...
Life Amid the Principalities
Identifying, Understanding, and Engaging Created, Fallen, and Disarmed Powers Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
"We are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness" (Eph 6:12). So Paul warns his Ephesian readers. And yet Paul also says that these principalities and powers were created in and for Christ...
The Morally Divided Body
Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
At the same time as Catholic and evangelical Christians have increasingly come to agree on issues that divided them during the sixteenth-century reformations, they seem increasingly to disagree on issues of contemporary morality and ethics. Do such arguments doom the prospects for realistic full communion...
Remembering the Reformation
Commemorate? Celebrate? Repent?
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation. Can Christians of differing traditions commemorate the upcoming 500th anniversary of this event together? How do we understand and assess the Reformation today? What calls for celebration?...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
What is our destiny? The final end of humanity and the universe is a subject of perennial interest, especially for Christians. What are we promised? Will anyone finally be left out of God's intentions to bless humanity? What sort of transformation will be needed to enter the presence of God? These...
Who Do You Say That I Am?
Proclaiming and Following Jesus Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
No question is more central to Christian living, preaching, and theology than Jesus' question to his disciples: Who do you say that I am? Some would have it that pastors and theologians, biblical exegetes and historians, dogmatic and moral theologians, Catholic and Evangelical have more differences...
What Does It Mean to “Do This”?
Supper, Mass, Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Jesus' best-known mandate--after perhaps the mandate to love God and neighbor--was given at the Last Supper just before his death: "Do this in memory of me." Indeed, a case can be made that to "do this" is the source and summit of the way Christians carry out Jesus' love-mandate....
The Beauty of God’s House
Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
For thirty years, Stratford Caldecott has been an inspirational figure in liturgy, fantasy literature, graphic novels, spirituality, education, ecology and social theory. Hundreds of people have learned from his spiritual approaches to the great existential questions. The Beauty of God's House is...
Wager
Beauty, Suffering, and Being in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How do humans explore beauty, virtue, love, justice, and goodness? This book argues that philosophical attention to our lives, shaped in part by our choices, is our instrument for investigating these parts of reality. Constructing a life is a philosophical act. Philosophical acts that are shaped by...