Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
by James F. McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
What is the difference between a god and a powerful alien? Can an android have a soul, or be considered a person with rights? Can we imagine biblical stories being retold in the distant future on planets far from Earth? Whether your interest is in Christianity in the future, or the Jedi in the present--and...
Rethinking Genesis 1–11
Gateway to the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Genesis 1-11 contains some of the best-known stories in the world. To modern Westerners they may look like no more than entertaining tales that children can enjoy, but modern adults cannot take seriously. However, when read in the context of the ancient Orient, Genesis 1-11 looks very different. It...
Hear the Ancient Wisdom
A Meditational Reader for the Whole Year from the Early Church Fathers up to the Pre-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
There is a hunger in the modern world for spirituality. One vast resource of spiritual wisdom comes from the pre-Reformation church--from the martyrs of the first centuries of Christianity, through the long tradition of monasticism, to the medieval Christian mystics. These are the deep wells of Christian...
Salvation in My Pocket
Fragments of Faith and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
The short pieces assembled in Salvation in My Pocket are miniature experiments in Christian joy. They are attempts at describing the difference God makes to ordinary experience, and to discover glimpses of God's light in everyday life. If there is any thread that holds these haphazard reflections...
In the Shadow of Aldersgate
An Introduction to the Heritage and Faith of the Wesleyan Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
John Wesley (1703-91) was a unique character in history who left a disproportionately large imprint on the world. That imprint was a contagious passion for what he called real Christianity--the Good News of saving grace and scriptural holiness. This book examines Wesley's life and faith in order to...
by Gary W. Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The Gospel According to the Blues dares us to read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in conversation with Robert Johnson, Son House, and Muddy Waters. It suggests that thinking about the blues--the history, the artists, the songs--provides good stimulation for thinking about the Christian gospel. Both are...
Overture to Practical Theology
The Music of Religious Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
"In Overture to Practical Theology, Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner takes a new route to introduce theology students and others to the field of practical theology. Although she is certainly aware of relatively recent efforts to show the academic credentials of practical theology through careful definition...
The Healing Myth
A Critique of the Modern Healing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
What is the role of the church in ministering to the sick? This book argues that it is not what is now called the healing ministry, with its frequent claims of remarkable cures from physical illness. Little critical attention seems to have been paid to the validity of these claims, which, if genuine,...
by Jason Byassee
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
The desert fathers wanted to get away from a church co-opted by empire and a Christian faith grown cold and listless. They retreated to the desert to do battle against demons and against their own worst desires. They had no intention of being famous; yet ironically their Sayings have inspired millions...
Reading Augustine
A Guide to the Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship,...
Discerning the Body
Searching for Jesus in the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Where in the world is the church? These articles, essays, opinion pieces, and blog posts gather around that question. If we quit on the question in despair, we are lost. If we answer it too quickly, we are not digging deeply enough. But if we hunt hard with the help of the Holy Spirit, we'll find...
Mentoring for Ministry
The Grace of Growing Pastors
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced. This book explores the practice and grace of that art. The pastors in these pages share their hard-won experience of mentoring and being mentored, their wobbles and successes, insights and wisdom harvested from years in the vineyard.
The Way to Love
Reimagining Christian Spiritual Growth as the Hopeful Path of Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Love people." An oft-proclaimed rallying cry for Christians, but what does it look like, in practice, to love? We may believe that love is "the greatest" (1 Cor 13:13). Love may be our destination. But do we know how to get there? This book addresses essential questions about...
For the Unity of All
Contributions to the Theological Dialogue between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
For the Unity of All offers significant and new contributions for the furthering of dialogue and the path to unity between East and West. In this excellent example of ecumenical theology, the author utilizes the resources of contemporary philosophy in an effort to shed some new light on centuries-old debates that perpetuate the division between the Christian churches.