Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
The Myth Awakens
Canon, Conservatism, and Fan Reception of Star Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
The trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens made a strong impression on fans. Many were excited by what they saw as a return to the spirit of George Lucas's 1977 creation. Others--including several white supremacy groups--were upset and offended by key differences, most notably the shift away from...
Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good
Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato's...
by Kevin Giles
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically, and that this is the ground for the hierarchical ordering of the sexes. Suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2016 a number of complementarian theologians of confessional...
Patterns of Ministry among the First Christians
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This new edition of Patterns of Ministry Among the First Christians tells the story of how the first Christian leaders emerged and, with the passing of time, developed. The book includes sections on Jesus and Paul and their understanding of Christian leadership, on bishops, deacons, elders, apostles,...
Encountering Earth
Thinking Theologically With a More-Than-Human World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
One day, Matthew Eaton was walking through an impromptu animal shelter display at his local pet store when suddenly an eight-month-old kitten dug his claws into Eaton's flesh. Eaton recognized that the "eyes of this cat and the curve of his claw" compelled a response analogous to those found in the...
State of Affairs
The Science-Theology Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The last sixty years have witnessed a virtual explosion of interest in how modern science and traditional Christianity intersect. This new rapprochement with science has irrevocably altered how we think of God. It constitutes a foundation from which we cannot retreat, but from which we also cannot...
Eden's Other Residents
The Bible and Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky. Animals are Adam's companions, Noah's shipmates, and Elijah's saviors. They are at the center...
Still Growing
The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one's earlier years. In Still Growing, however, Donald Capps contends that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that...
The Gift of Sublimation
A Psychoanalytic Study of Multiple Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
There is not, and never was, a monolithic masculinity; there are, and always have been, multiple masculinities. Today diversity with regard to gender and sexuality is beginning to be recognized and celebrated even while many religious denominations still resist these cultural changes. This book offers...
Striking Out
The Religious Journey of Teenage Boys
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Whatever religion may have meant to the boy when he was younger, in the teenage years it takes the form of a personal journey or quest. This journey is related to other aspects of his life and is integral to how he experiences himself and others. The title of this volume--Striking Out--has the connotation...
Humor Us
An Appeal for the Gospel of Relaxation
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
This book addresses the fact that Americans tend to live under a considerable amount of stress, tension, and anxiety, and suggests that humor can be helpful in alleviating their distress. It posits that humor is a useful placebo in this regard; cites studies that show that humor moderates life stress;...
At Home in the World
A Study in Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The emotional separation of boys from their mothers in early childhood enables them to connect with their fathers and their fathers' world. But this separation also produces a melancholic reaction of sadness and sense of loss. Certain religious sensibilities develop out of this melancholic reaction,...
Living in Limbo
Life in the Midst of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Limbo has traditionally been viewed as a place between heaven, on the one hand, and purgatory and hell, on the other, to which the patriarchs, who lived under the old law, and babies who died before being baptized into the Christian faith have been consigned. Like purgatory, it is a dark place but...
The Religious Life
The Insights of William James
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
William James called his classic work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, "a study in human nature." This volume recognizes that a fundamental feature of human nature for James is that we have a conscious and a subconscious mind and that the subconscious mind is deeply implicated in...