Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
A Land Full of God
Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A Land Full of God gives American Christians an opportunity to promote peace and justice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It shows them how to understand the enmity with brief, digestible, and comprehensive essays about the historical, political, religious, and geographical tensions that have...
Sex, Wives, and Warriors
Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative? This book provides fresh answers to these questions. First, it models possible readers of the Bible--religious and nonreligious, professional and nonprofessional--and the reasons that might attract them to it. Second, with the aid of Mediterranean...
Care of Souls, Care of Polis
Toward a Political Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In the fields of pastoral care and pastoral theology, there are times when a book signals a paradigm shift. This is one such book. LaMothe develops a political pastoral theology that is used to examine critically political, economic, and societal structures and practices. In the first part of the...
Theology of My Life
A Theological and Apologetic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book is an autobiographical memoir. It tells the story of how God prepared me for the work of theology during childhood and during my schooling at Princeton, Westminster, and Yale. It focuses on those events that shaped my theological convictions and led me to develop my distinctive emphases...
So, Tell Me a Story
The Art of Storytelling for Preaching and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
"Everyone loves a good story, and So Tell Me a Story offers wise counsel to preachers and teachers who want to improve their storytelling skills. Farris, an experienced and skilled speaker, provides instruction, encouragement, and advice on how to avoid pitfalls that face storytellers. The book...
The Energy of Forgiveness
Lessons from Those in Restorative Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Forgiveness is a profound, life-changing experience for many people who have been hurt by others. But forgiveness is paradoxical in that if one relies on forgiveness language or if others prescribe it as an expectation, the depth of that experience can be significantly compromised. By the same token,...
by Peter C. Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The "summer sermons" have been delivered in the Presbyterian Church of Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, over a period of fifteen years. When someone first arrives in Eagles Mere for the summer, people ask how their "winter" has been--winter meaning the whole time that has elapsed since...
The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross
Their Circumstances and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Who of us can possibly imagine the excruciating pain of being crucified? But further, who would imagine that in the midst of this ghastly punishment that brings on unrelenting headaches and mental disorientation, a crucified man would actually give thought to the needs of others? This book explores...
John 3:16
What’s It All About?
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
What is the most famous and influential sentence of all time? Was it spoken or written in Mandarin or German or English--or Greek? And who spoke or recorded this sentence? A case could be made that twenty-five words found in the third chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Bible...
If You Call Yourself a Jew
Reappraising Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
If You Call Yourself a Jew reads Romans as a dialogue between Paul and a Gentile proselyte to Judaism. This fresh reading brings Romans into focus as Paul's exposition of the revelation of God's righteousness--his faithfulness to his covenant promises to Abraham, which climaxed in the announcement...
The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media
Story and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This cutting-edge volume has been brought together in honor of Thomas Boomershine, author, scholar, storyteller, innovator. The particular occasion inviting this recognition of his work is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society of Biblical Literature's section on The Bible in Ancient and Modern...
by Antoinette Clark Wire
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Is it possible to make a case that the Gospel of Mark was not composed by a single man from scattered accounts but in a process of people's telling Jesus' story over several decades? And what can we say about the tellers who were shaping this story for changing audiences? After an introduction showing...
Oral-Scribal Dimensions of Scripture, Piety, and Practice
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In April 2008 a conference was convened at Rice University that brought together experts in the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The papers discussed at the conference are presented here, revised and updated. The thirteen contributions comprise the keynote address...
Unity and Diversity in Christ: Interpreting Paul in Context
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
These essays represent William Campbell's ongoing challenge over the last two decades to a residual aspect of the paradigm of Paulinism, namely that of interpreting Paul in antithesis to his Jewish roots. Campbell has proposed a new approach to Paul focusing on such themes as diversity, identity,...