Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Remembering Lived Lives
A Historiography from the Underside of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Žižek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this study challenges both historians...
God and Gadgets
Following Jesus in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Technologies are deeply embedded in the modern West. What would our lives be like without asphalt, glass, gasoline, electricity, window screens, or indoor plumbing? We naturally praise technology when it is useful and bemoan it when it is not. But there is much more to technology than the usefulness...
by Tatha Wiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
How do our current notions of the workings of the universe fit with our deepest convictions about its meaning and value? From religion, we grasp the world as created, given, gift. From science, we apprehend it as evolving, in process, changing. How do we bring these apprehensions together? Or can...
Reading Corinthians and Philippians within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, vol. 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The commentary tradition regarding 1 Corinthians unanimously identifies the "weak" as Christ-followers whose faith was not yet sufficient to indulge in the eating of idol food with indifference, as if ideally Paul wanted them to become "strong" enough to do so. Commentaries also...
Reading Paul within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The dominant portrayals of the apostle Paul are of a figure who no longer valued Jewish identity and behavior, opposing them for both Jew and non-Jew in his assemblies. This prevailing version of Paul depends heavily upon certain interpretations of key "flashpoint" passages. In this book...
Reading Romans within Judaism
Collected Essays of Mark D. Nanos, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Over fifty years ago, Vatican II's Nostra Aetate 4 drew from Romans 11 to challenge the way Paul's voice has been used to negatively discuss Jews and Judaism. The church called for Catholics to conceptualize Jews as "brothers" in "an everlasting covenant," and many other Christian...
The Story of Narrative Preaching
Experience and Exposition: A Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Forty years ago the one thing that could be said about sermons was they were biblical. Unfortunately, they were sometimes tedious too. Narrative preaching aimed to fix that, advocating for a dynamic experience of the text over against a static lecture. Preaching could be like the parables of Jesus,...
Table Talk
Rethinking Communion and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For nearly two thousand years followers of Jesus have gathered in churches to eat a meal called Communion in his memory. In Table Talk, Mike Graves claims if we could travel back to those earliest Christian gatherings, we would realize we are not just two thousand years removed; we are light-years...
by John Killinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church, so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith. In their...
Seeing-Remembering-Connecting
Subversive Practices of Being Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book draws from Bloomquist's many years and formative experiences as a pastor, theologian, activist, seminary professor, and speaker in a number of settings--both within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and ecumenically and globally. Drawing insights from many sources, Seeing-Remembering-Connecting...
Your Neighbor's Hymnal
What Popular Music Teaches Us about Faith, Hope, and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Your Neighbor's Hymnal provides a winsome and thoughtful exploration of popular music, from rock to hip-hop to metal to soul, as a vital source contemporary culture continues to go to learn about faith, hope, and love. Where some Christians have kept their focus only on a hymnal found in their church...
Changing Church
Stories of Liberating Ministers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Through the fascinating stories of pioneering ministers, this book reveals a unique picture of progressive changes occurring in the Christian tradition. Meeting challenges and overcoming obstacles, these twelve diverse ministers are changing the church as they take prophetic stands on gender, race,...
Homiletical Theology in Action
The Unfinished Theological Task of Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Homiletics is taking a theological turn. But what does the preaching task look like if we think of it not so much as a mastery of technique, but an exercise in theological method? Homiletical Theology in Action: The Unfinished Theological Task of Preaching tries to envision the work of homiletics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Promise has a long pedigree in the history of Christian understandings of the gospel. This volume gathers together leading homileticians to consider the breadth of its understanding today in light of the struggle to reconcile God's grace with God's justice. Assuming that promise is a core sense of...