Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
The challenges and changes that take place when religions move from one cultural context to another present unique opportunities for interreligious dialogue. In new cultural environments religions are not only propelled to enter into dialogue with the traditional or dominant religion of a particular...
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 2
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World—Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In the present volume, Elliott addresses the most extensive sources of Evil Eye belief in antiquity--the cultures of Greece and Rome. In this period, features of the belief found in Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources are expanded to the point where an "Evil Eye belief complex" becomes apparent....
Conflict, Community, and Honor
1 Peter in Social-Scientific Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 3
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
The Evil Eye is mentioned repeatedly throughout the Old Testament, Israel's parabiblical writings, and New Testament, with a variety of terms and expressions. The Old Testament (Greek Septuagint) contains no less than fourteen text segments involving some twenty explicit references to the Evil Eye...
Beware the Evil Eye Volume 1
The Evil Eye in the Bible and the Ancient World—Introduction, Mesopotamia, and Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world--the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
CONTRIBUTORS: Mustafa Abu-Sway, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University Reinhold Bernhardt, Basel Univeristy David Burrell, CSC, University of Notre Dame Catherine Cornille, Boston College Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol David M. Elcott, New York University Joseph Lumbard,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Catherine Cornille, Boston College David Tracy, University of Chicago Divinity School Werner Jeanrond, University of Glasgow Marianne Moyaert, University of Leuven John Maraldo, University of North Florida Reza Shah-Kazemi, Institute of Ismaili Studies Malcolm David Eckel, Boston University Joseph...
Inventing Christic Jesuses: Rules and Warrants for Theology
Volume 2: Christological Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology's deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research. By setting out theological methods, warrants, and rules, in dialogue with an analysis of the Jesus historians...
by David W. Bebbington
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. From being a small minority in the eighteenth century, they had increased to represent nearly half the worshipping nation by the middle years of the nineteenth...
Through with Kings and Armies
The Marriage of George and Jean Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
In an era of seemingly endless war, and similarly endless debates about the nature of marriage, Through with Kings and Armies offers a fresh look at what both war and marriage might mean for Christians. This is a love story: the tale of a sixty-three-year marriage grounded in the love of Jesus Christ...
by Steve Mason
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
No field of study is livelier than the history of Roman-era Judaea (ca. 200 BC to AD 400). Bold reinterpretations of texts and new archaeological discoveries prompt us constantly to rethink assumptions. What kind of religion was Judaism? How did Jews--and Christians--relate to Roman imperial power?...
Envisioning the Good Life
Essays on God, Christ, and Human Flourishing in Honor of Miroslav Volf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Who is God? What is God's relation to the world? How is God disposed towards us? What does God ask of us? These questions are not mere intellectual puzzles. They matter for us. A disinterested theology would be no theology at all, for we are fundamentally, at our very core, invested in God. God is...
Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference
Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--faith seeking the ethical--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze...
Remembering the Future
A Collection of Essays, Interviews, and Poetry at the Intersection of Theology and Culture: The Other Journal 2004-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Remembering the Future is a collection of poems, essays, and interviews that ask readers to see their world with double-vision-to imagine the redemptive consequences of engaging the world with a fastidious awareness of both the biblical tradition and the cultural moment. Remembering the Future is...