Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Homiletical Theology
Preaching as Doing Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation. But what if all sermon preparation is actually theology? This book pursues a thoroughgoing theological vision for the practice of preaching as a way of doing theology. The idea is not just that homiletics is the realm of theological...
Theologies of the Gospel in Context
The Crux of Homiletical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Many preachers and teachers of preaching talk about the gospel; few name it. Theologies of the Gospel in Context assembles a gifted group of homileticians who think that preachers need to be able to articulate the gospel not "in general," but in a certain time and place, in context. They...
Wisdom and Spiritual Transcendence at Corinth
Studies in First Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Examining each of the major sections of 1 Corinthians, Horsley probes the disagreement Paul had with those claiming special spiritual status. The conflicts over what constitute wisdom, knowledge, and spirituality cut to the core of what Paul was trying to accomplish in his communities. Horsley moves...
Jesus and Magic
Freeing the Gospel Stories from Modern Misconceptions
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesus's healings and exorcisms as miracles. Some highly regarded scholars have argued, more provocatively, that the healings and exorcisms were magic, and that Jesus...
by Richard A. Horsley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research...
Image, Incarnation, and Christian Expansivism
A Meta-Philosophy of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
I am the way, the truth, and the life, says Jesus. Yet the kingdom of heaven consists of all tribes, races, and peoples. How do people of tribes who've never heard the word of Christ enter the kingdom of God? A strictly exclusivist account of the gospel seems to keep many people out of the kingdom...
The Resurrection of Immortality
An Essay in Philosophical Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense. On that Christians agree. But not all Christians agree on whether humans are essentially immortal. Some hold that the early church was right to borrow from the ancient Greek philosophers and...
by Douglas E. Oakman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
While some of the chapters focus on systemic issues, others probe the depths of individual Gospel passages. The author's keen eye for textual detail, archaeological data, comparative materials, and systemic overviews make this volume a joy for anyone interested in understanding Jesus in his own context....
In Case of Katrina
Reinventing the Church in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Since six months after landfall, Ellen Blue has taught "The Church's Response to Katrina." It sidesteps disaster response, where clearly the church should be involved. What was unclear was how leaders in a connectional denomination like United Methodism should decide which churches to merge...
Love That Rejoices in the Truth
Theological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Love, says the apostle Paul, does not rejoice over injustice, but rejoices in the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6). The theological explorations undertaken here all deal in one way or another with the liberating promise and the perplexing problem of truth in Christian life and witness, and with the ways...
The Perfection of Freedom
Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller,...
Love and the Postmodern Predicament
Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of "reality" is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim...
by Emily Askew, O. Wesley Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book is not another volume attempting to persuade the reader of the rights of gays and lesbians in society and in the church. Instead it assumes the reader is a minister or student of ministry who already has a passion for this issue and is looking for better strategies to speak out of this passion...
Negating Negation
Against the Apophatic Abandonment of the Dionysian Corpus
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Negating Negation critically examines key concepts in the corpus of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: divine names and perceptible symbols, removal and negation, hierarchy and hierurgy, ineffability and incomprehensibility. In each case it argues that the Dionysian corpus does not negate all things...