Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
The Shape of the Gospel
New Testament Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Most of the following essays reveal my interest in the significance of literary forms--both the short literary forms in the Gospels, such as pronouncement stories, and an entire Gospel as a formed narrative. I am interested in the significance of these forms, not just in literary classification systems...
Apostle Paul
A Polite Bribe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The Apostle Paul's dramatic and much-discussed conversion on the road to Damascus radically changed the course of his life--as well as the Christian religion. Can a new narrative, and a new perspective, be brought to this two-thousand-year-old story and centuries of critical thought and study? Writer...
Questing for Understanding
Persons, Places, Passions
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Trying to articulate the ways in which one's life meshes with one's own time can be perilous, yet friends have encouraged me to do just that. Nevertheless, for one oriented to serving others as teacher and mentor in a context of faith, writing about oneself seems unnatural. Yet the self we have been...
Welcome as a Way of Life
A Practical Theology of Jean Vanier
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book is about the theology of Jean Vanier. Drawing from Vanier's writings, it situates Vanier's theological thinking on community, care, and what it means to be and become human in the context of "welcome." This book draws attention to how welcome, for Vanier, is a visible expression...
Christianity and the Culture Machine
Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the cultural marketplace, the author argues that Christianity's inability to effectively contest the ideology of...
Writing Home, With Love
Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
For the last two years, acclaimed theologian Amy Laura Hall has written a lively, wide-ranging, opinionated column for her local newspaper. In her column, Hall has sought--without flatly rejecting globalism--to think and act locally. She has also responded to what she sees as a disturbing Christian...
ReVisioning
Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history...
Abiding Faith
Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Australian theologian Scott Cowdell explores how having faith has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity in the West. He returns faith from pious sentimentality and arid philosophy of religion to the realm of participating knowing, paradigmatic imagination, and personal transformation...
American Tricksters
Thoughts on the Shadow Side of a Culture's Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer...
Approaching the World’s Religions, Volume 1
Philosophically Thinking about World Religions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Philosophically Thinking about World Religions is different from other works in the discipline today. It deviates from the typical approaches used for the study of world religions. Its goal is to engage readers in thinking hard about world religions, not about the data surrounding those traditions....
Approaching the World’s Religions, Volume 2
An Evangelical Theology of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Evangelical theology strives to be evangelical, conservative, and contemporary. In a world in which everyone is "Christian," evangelical theology provides a balanced position between fundamentalism and liberalism. While theological debates within the family will occur, to be evangelical...
A Theology of Literature
The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
With the tools of far-reaching revolutions in literary theory and informed by the poetic sense of truth, William Franke offers a critical appreciation and philosophical reflection on a way of reading the Bible as theological revelation. Franke explores some of the principal literary genres of the...
by Luther H. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This selection of essays by Luther Martin brings together studies from throughout his career--both early as well as more recent--in the various areas of Graeco-Roman religions, including mystery cults, Judaism, Christianity, and Gnosticism. It is hoped that these studies, which represent spatial,...
“In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality”
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. has too often cast him in the image of the Southern black preacher and the American Gandhi, while ignoring or trivializing his global connections and significance. This groundbreaking work, written by scholars, religious leaders, and activists of different...