Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Trauma-Sensitive Theology
Thinking Theologically in the Era of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma. It explores the nature of traumatic exposure, response, processing, and recovery and its impact on...
Mountaintop Theology
Panoramic Perspectives of Redemptive History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Mountaintop Theology invites the reader to revisit biblical events that occurred on the slopes or summits of mountains. Employing the disciplines of historical geography and biblical theology, Helyer probes the theological truths underlying these mountaintop experiences. The intent is to gain a fresh perspective on the defining doctrines of evangelical faith.
God Is . . .
Meditations on the Mystery of Life, the Purity of Grace, the Bliss of Surrender, and the God beyond God
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
Your God is too small--way too small! What if God is not a human-like personal being but the God Beyond God of the Christian mystical traditions? What if God is the ultimate reality beyond all beings, including beyond all divine beings, indeed beyond all Being? It's a mind-bending idea. Speaking of...
Bowing Toward Babylon
The Nationalistic Subversion of Christian Worship in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
What is being done in worship when national holidays are celebrated, the American flag is displayed and honored, and songs are sung that extol the nation? Are these benign gestures? Or could they actually be idolatrous? In this insightful and persuasively argued study Craig M. Watts contends the inclusion...
Reforming the Monastery
Protestant Theologies of the Religious Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Richard Froude wrote in 1833 to John Henry Newman that the present state of things in England makes an opening for reviving the monastic system. Seemingly original words at the time. Yet, monasticism is one of the most ancient and enduring institutions of the Christian church, reaching its zenith...
Jesus and the Family
Crisis and Conversion in the American Household
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
There are few more loaded words in American life than family. Jesus grew up in one and honored his parents in fulfillment of the commandments. But his teachings on family life stand among the most jarring things he ever said. Jesus invites serious followers to hate mother and father. He predicts discipleship...
Seventy Images of Grace in the Epistles . . .
That Make All the Difference in Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
How can faith speak directly to people's real lives? How can conversation around Scripture make "all the difference" in the arenas of one's daily world? People who have heard the Bible many times--or for the first time--want to know in the terms and images of their life situation. "When...
The Idea of a Christian College
A Reexamination for Today’s University
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In 1975, Arthur F. Holmes published The Idea of a Christian College. At the time he could not have imagined his book would gather such a large following. This work's thoughtful yet accessible style made it a long-standing choice for reading lists on Christian college and university campuses across...
Finding Our Balance
Repositioning Mainstream Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is easy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from...
by Philip D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
What is faith? In what ways might faith be a virtue, a component of a life well lived? How might faith be corrupted and become a vice? In Why Faith Is a Virtue, Philip D. Smith builds on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the...
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
Pope Benedict XVI's Social Encyclical and the Future of Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
This collection of essays outlines a new political economy. Twenty years after the demise of Soviet communism, the global recession into which free-market capitalism has plunged the world economy provides a unique opportunity to chart an alternative path. Both the left-wing adulation of centralized...
Hope in the Age of Climate Change
Creation Care This Side of the Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
It is difficult to be hopeful in the midst of daily news about the effects of climate change on people and our planet. While the Christian basis for hope is the resurrection of Jesus, unfortunately far too many American Protestant Christians do not connect this belief with the daily witness of their...
Understanding Children's Spirituality
Theology, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
How important is childhood in the spiritual formation of a person? How do children experience God in the context of their lives as they grow? What does God do in the lives of children to draw them to himself and help them grow into a vital relationship with him? How can adults who care about children...
Second Bloom
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In Second Bloom, Silver looks unflinchingly and honestly at the suffering of cancer, while at the same time celebrating the possibility of joy, the persistence of beauty and love, the simultaneous winnowing and comfort of faith. These poems are contemplative and often personal, but reach out to the...