Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
"God Is Dead" and I Don't Feel So Good Myself
Theological Engagements with the New Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this pertinent and engaging volume leading Christian philosophers, theologians, and writers from all over the denominational map explode the black-and-white binaries that characterize both sides of the New Atheism debate. They transcend the self-assured shouting matches of this latest expression...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Is faith a necessary virtue in the contemporary world? May it be, or must it be, detached from religious commitment? What do genealogies of the secular tell us about faith? Does religion need secular faith? Secular Faith brings together leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the apparent paradox...
The Universe is Indifferent
Theology, Philosophy, and Mad Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Centered upon the lives of employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the AMC television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic desire, and the role of deception in Western capitalism. While the subject matters of the chapters in...
Rorty and the Religious
Christian Engagements with a Secular Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Prior to his death in 2007, the self-described secular philosopher Richard Rorty began to modify his previous position concerning religion. Moving from atheism to anti-clericalism, Rorty challenges the metaphysical assumptions that lend justification to abuses of power in the name of religion. Instead...
Strength of Mind
Courage, Hope, Freedom, Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions...
Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?
Essays on Modern Art and Theology in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Modern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds something else, something much deeper that resonates with the human experience. With over thirty essays on such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Thomas Kinkade, Diego Velazquez,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Should women be priests? Should women submit to their husbands? Is premarital sex okay? Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In Sex, Gender, and Christianity, a cadre of seasoned college professors offers the modest proposal that honest, fruitful...
by Peter Iver Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change. His skepticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical? Can a radical be theologically and faithfully Lutheran? This book answers yes. Written by teacher-scholars from five ELCA colleges, Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals follows Martin Luther, Soren Kierkegaard, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Soelle, and others...
Postmodern Theology
A Biopic
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally credited with having sparked the movement, even...
Science, Religion, and Health
The Interface of Psychology and Theology/Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Psychology and theology interface at four levels: theory development, research process, data collection, and clinical operation. At each level they connect in the model of humanness (anthropology) forming and functioning there; and in that model of humanness it is in personality theory that psychology...
Traversing the Middle
Ethics, Politics, Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
In recent philosophy, theology, and critical theory, postmodern thought has been much criticized on specifically ethical and political grounds. In particular, it has been argued that postmodernism has induced passivity and is impotent in the face of the challenges presented by the hegemonic global...
God and Gravity
A Philip Clayton Reader on Science and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Philip Clayton is well known as a major thinker working at the interface of science, philosophy, and Christian theology. Here, for the first time, a representative selection of his far-reaching works have been brought together into one place. After a general introduction to the breadth of Clayton's...
The Becoming of God
Process Theology, Philosophy, and Multireligious Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
How should we believe in God today? If we look beyond our little lives to the vast cosmos, we may even ask: Why all that? And even if we spiritually feel the universe: Why believe any religion? After all, there are many; and haven't they contributed to the predicament of humanity? Process theology...