Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
An Ocean Vast of Blessing
A Theology of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Humans are made in the image of God, and authentically coming to be human means to become like him. This work pursues a robust and renewed theology of grace in conversation with the patristic traditions of Irenaeus, the Cappadocian Fathers, and Augustine, the medieval theology of Maximus and Aquinas,...
Poetic Youth Ministry
Learning to Love Young People by Letting Them Go
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Current research shows what many in the Christian community already know: young people are leaving the church. This raises important questions: Why are young people leaving? How can the church respond? Some have responded to this issue out of a posture of fear and anxiety, trying to find new ways...
by Robert Cummings Neville
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Once liberal Christianity was preached in ways that defined it in the public eye. Now Christianity is identified almost exclusively with its conservative expressions. Seasons of the Christian Life presents a series of sermons articulating a liberal Christianity over against its conservative neighbors....
by Robert Cummings Neville
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The dimension of eternity has been lost from much contemporary religious consciousness. Liberals tend to focus on action within time, as do conservatives, who see history as a battleground for a war of good against evil. Spiritual life, however, also requires nurturing a sense of eternity within time....
Engaging Luther
A (New) Theological Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
The Reformer Martin Luther is the source of endless fascination and dispute. Not only his antagonists but also his supporters have created a host of representations of his thought. On the one hand, Catholic and other similar voices have accused Luther of being the major agent in the birth of modern...
Virtue
An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Since the 1960s, the virtues have been making a comeback in various fields of study. This book offers an overview of the history of virtues from Plato to Nietzsche, discusses the philosophy and psychology of virtues, and analyzes different applications of virtue in epistemology, positive psychology, ethics, and politics.
Amidst Mass Atrocity and the Rubble of Theology
Searching for a Viable Theodicy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
It is hubris to claim answers to unanswerable questions. Such questions, however--as part of their burden and worth--must still be asked, investigated, and contemplated. How there can be a loving, all-powerful God and a world stymied by suffering and evil is one of the unanswerable questions we must...
Letters to Peter
On the Journey from Grief to Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Dad. I've got very, very, very bad news. Peter was killed tonight . . . With that middle-of-the-night phone call, life for the Mayer family plunged from best-ever year to months and years of dealing with the oppressive presence of Peter's unending absence. A letter from his father to the freshly deceased...
Agape Ethics
Moral Realism and Love for All Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Consider intense moments when you have been seized by joy or, in different contexts, by anguish for another person, or a cat or dog, or perhaps even for a squirrel or possum struck as it dashed across the road: whether glorious or haunting, these are among the most profound and meaningful moments...
Pharaohs on Both Sides of the Blood-Red Waters
Prophetic Critique on Empire: Resistance, Justice, and the Power of the Hopeful Sizwe—A Transatlantic Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
After the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles, are we truly living in post-racial, post-apartheid societies where the word struggle is now out of place? Do we now truly realize that, as President Obama said, the situation for the Palestinian people is "intolerable"? This book argues...
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics
Essays in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Political theology as a normative discourse has been controversial not only for secular political philosophers who are especially suspicious of messianic claims but also for Jewish and Christian thinkers who differ widely on its meaning. These essays mount an argument for a "Messianic Political...
Power of Popular Piety
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
This book examines the ambivalence of folk Catholicism as a resource to fight against injustice, exploitation, and oppression. Cases are cited to illuminate the value and potential trespasses of popular religious beliefs and practices. Over centuries, representatives of the powerful middle and upper...
Embracing Solitude
Women and New Monasticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Embracing Solitude focuses on the interior turn of monasticism and scans the Christian tradition for women who have made this turn in various epochs and circumstances. New Monasticism is a movement assuming diverse forms in response to the turn to classical spiritual sources for guidance about living...
Self-Emptying Love in a Global Context
The Spiritual Exercises and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Care for the environment is an ever more pressing concern in today's world in which narrow self-interest has blinded us to the growing pollution of atmosphere and seas and the destruction of animal species caused by our indifference and neglect. Christianity has been blamed in part for this because...