Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Living without a Why
Mysticism, Pluralism, and the Way of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In this book Paul O. Ingram adds his voice to a long list of writers seeking to relate Christian tradition to the hard realities of this post-Christian age of religious and secular pluralism. As a Lutheran, Ingram thinks grace flows over this universe like a waterfall. So he brings Christian mystical...
Holy Cooperation!
Building Graceful Economies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The first Christians immediately set about creating a social structure based on democratic control of their collective resources, which were shared freely. While this was a voluntary system, it carried great spiritual weight and was a continuation of values that were clearly encouraged in the stories...
Mending a Tattered Faith
Devotions with Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Although Emily Dickinson is sometimes seen as a religious skeptic, she never gave up on God, struggling with issues of faith and doubt throughout her life. Many of her poems depict such struggles, sometimes with humor and sometimes with despair. Reading and reflecting on these poems can be a powerful...
Praying Psalms
A Personal Journey through the Psalter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
In Praying Psalms Ian Stackhouse offers daily reflections on all 150 psalms. In so doing, he seeks to alert the reader to the sheer emotional range of the Psalter in the hope that this will give courage to pray bold, honest prayers. Indeed, Praying Psalms is best used not as a commentary but a basic...
Letters to a Young Pastor
Reflections on Leadership, Community, and the Gospel of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Speaking out of twenty-seven years of pastoral ministry, Ian Stackhouse writes a series of letters to a young pastor just starting out. Responding to the various challenges his young charge faces in the first few years of congregational leadership, Letters to a Young Pastor is something of a spiritual...
Christmas
Theological Anticipations
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Christmas cheers the birth of Christ with a fresh look at the festive season. English engages the rich theological and biblical themes of Advent as well as family traditions, popular carols, and legends of the holidays. Topics range from a theology of the incarnation of the Word, the role of Mary,...
Theatrical Theology
Explorations in Performing the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Theology is inherently theatrical, rooted in God's performance on the world stage and oriented toward faith seeking performative understanding in the theatre of everyday life. Following Hans Urs von Balthasar's magisterial, five-volume Theo-Drama, a growing number of theologians and pastors have been...
The Shame Factor
How Shame Shapes Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology and church practice concentrate on providing forgiveness for shameful behavior, recent scholarship has discovered the crucial relevance of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What does the Bible say about the American future? Does it contain an apocalyptic vision in which conflicts are to be resolved by war? Or does it contain a vision of coexistence under some system of conflict management? While both visions have biblical foundations, the apocalyptic alternative has...
Toward Decentering the New Testament
A Reintroduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It...
I Found God in Me
A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is an excellent resource...
Womanist Sass and Talk Back
Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society. Systemic or structural oppression and injustices,...
by Antonio López
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Starting from both our originary experience of being given to ourselves and Jesus Christ's archetypal self-donation, Gift and the Unity of Being elucidates the sense in which gift is the form of being's unity, while unity itself constitutes the permanence of the gift of being. In dialogue with ancient...
Warlike Christians in an Age of Violence
The Evangelical Case against War and for Gospel Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
How should Christians respond to war? This age-old question has become more pressing given Western governments' recent overseas military interventions and the rise of extremist Islamist jihadism. Grounded in conservative evangelical theology, this book argues the historic church position that it is...