Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
by Steve Moyise
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Each Christmas, the birth of Jesus is celebrated through carols, Bible readings, and nativity plays. The angelic announcements to Mary and Elizabeth, Jesus' birth in a manger, and the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh are some of the best-known stories in the Bible. But did they really happen?...
Exploring Intertextuality
Diverse Strategies for New Testament Interpretation of Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book aims to provide advanced students of biblical studies, seminarians, and academicians with a variety of intertextual strategies to New Testament interpretation. Each chapter is written by a New Testament scholar who provides an established or avant-garde strategy in which: 1) The authors...
Jesus and Paul before Christianity
Their World and Work in Retrospect
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Who was the real founder of Christianity as it is known today--Jesus or Paul? What, if any, was the connection between them? These and other questions about the two historical figures have occupied biblical scholars and the Christian church for many years up to the present time. This book proposes...
Women in Ministry
Questions and Answers in the Exploration of a Calling
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Does Scripture exclude women from full participation in all forms of Christian ministry simply on the basis of gender? What insights can the church's "rule of faith," theology, Scripture, Christian history, and testimonies give women and men exploring this important issue today? In many...
by Philip Hefner, Ann Milliken Pederson
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Our Bodies Are Selves is a look at what it means to be human in a world where medical technology and emerging ethical insight force us to rethink the boundaries of humanity/spirit and man/machine. This book gives us a fresh look at how our expanding biological views of ourselves and our shared evolutionary...
by Kevin S. Seybold
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
What does it means to be human? What is the origin of religious beliefs? Why are we moral creatures? Are religious experiences different from our everyday experiences? Is my brain involved in my experiencing God? What is a soul and do I have one? Is religion a result of evolutionary processes? How...
The Least of These
Selected Readings in Christian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This collection of primary documents from Christian history spans the second to eighteenth centuries (Irenaeus to George Whitefield). Severson has chosen writings that all deal with the interpretation of the Parable of the Sheep and Goats (Matthew 25:31-46).
Building the Resilient Community
Lessons from the Lost Boys of Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
How do some communities around the world that suffer outrageous violence and trauma manage, with few outside resources, not only to survive, but to thrive? September 11, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, school shootings, and other events of community violence and trauma have taught us, as a nation...
by Charles B. Puskas, C. Michael Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Studying the New Testament requires a determination to encounter this collection of writings on its own terms. This classic introduction by Charles B. Puskas, revised with C. Michael Robbins, provides helpful guidance. Since the publication of the first edition, which was in print for twenty years,...
Notes from a Wayward Son
A Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
"Andrew Walker is one of the most remarkable scholars I have met across the years." William J. Abraham This "miscellany" puts readers around the table with a teacher who has provided the church with wisdom and passion and introduces a new voice to the ongoing conversation about...
Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist
An Étude in Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For centuries, Christian theology has understood the Eucharist in terms of metaphysics or in protest against it. Today an opening has been made to imagine the sacrament through the method of phenomenology, bringing about new theological life and meaning. In Dialectical Anatomy of the Eucharist, Donald...
Human and Divine Being
A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Nothing is more dangerous to be misunderstood than the question, "What is the human being?" In an era when this question is not only being misunderstood but even forgotten, wisdom delivered by the great thinkers and mystics of the past must be recovered. Edith Stein (1891-1942), a Jewish...
The Jagged Journey
Suffering—God’s Heart and Our Calling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
It's the most important subject in Christianity. It reveals who God is, how God works, how we mature as followers of Jesus, and how we are to conduct ourselves in this sinful world. The subject is suffering. To explore it biblically and inspirationally is to identify the basic elements of a responsible...
Bible Stories for Strong Stomachs
The Bible is Full of Shocking Stories, “R” Ratings, Seedy Characters, and Unsolved Mysteries That Convey God’s Word in the Weirdest Ways
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Intriguing and eye-opening interpretations of the most scandalous Bible stories that are puzzling and even shocking, maybe not even worthy of being in the Bible. A serious and sometimes whimsical taking of readers into the most awkward and even repulsive biblical narratives to find answers to the...