Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
by Hannah Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A Companion to St. Symeon the New Theologian is an accessible guide to one of the great mystical writers of the Eastern Christian tradition. His impassioned writings bring to life the monasticism of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the tenth century. Dr Hunt's succinct analysis of his life, times,...
The Homiletical Question
An Introduction to Liturgical Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The Homiletical Question offers preachers, from beginning students to the most experienced, a concise introduction to lectionary-based preaching in liturgical contexts familiar to Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and others. The book demonstrates how, by answering a single, simple...
In the Twilight with God
A Critique of Religion in the Light of Man’s Glassy Essence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Granted that God may exist, how may God be defined in our time? Addressing this issue Benjamin Farley explores a variety of belief systems, Western and Eastern, religious and skeptical. Taking an approach that is both critical of religion as well as sympathetic, Farley refuses to shy away from hard...
by Helen Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Human beings have to ask how faith is possible, in this mixed world of trouble and joy. A safe universe with no scope for adversity would be a mechanical toy, not a creation. A glorious universe will be a place where troubles have eventually been overcome. Christians believe in one God, who is three...
Roadmap to Renewal
Rediscovering the Church’s Mission—Revised Edition with Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Take a journey together with others from your local church--a road trip that will help you rediscover your true mission. This newly revised and updated edition of Roadmap to Renewal will serve as a vital resource enabling you to reconnect to your mission area. Use the step-by-step process in a small...
Peasants, Prophets, and Political Economy
The Hebrew Bible and Social Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Contents 1 Ancient Palestinian Peasant Movements and the Formation of Premonarchic Israel 2 Joshua 3 Coveting Your Neighbor's House in Social Context 4 Systemic Study of the Israelite Monarchy 5 Debt Easement in Israelite History and Tradition 6 The Political Economy of Peasant Poverty 7 Bitter Bounty:...
The Virtues and Vices in the Arts
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. This book brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical,...
An Uncertain Certainty
Snapshots in a Journey from "Either-Or" to "Both-And" in Christian Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Many people in Christian ministry are tired of simplistic certainties; what they need is permission to live with uncertainty, with mystery, ambiguity, and paradox. Because we live in a world that is far removed from the modernist version of reality, with its rational, clinical, and superficial presentation...
Dancing in the Dark, Revised Edition
The Privilege of Participating in God’s Ministry in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Christians are often tempted to encapsulate God in their own little boxes, as if God could be tied down to our finite way of thinking. But we can neither domesticate nor fully understand God, for theology has a lot to do with coming to terms with the mystery of God. This revised edition of Dancing...
Out of Exodus
A Journey of Open and Affirming Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Biblical and progressive. Mainline and charismatic. Faithful and questioning. This book is not what you think it is. The story of the Exodus is told in parallel with testimonies, sermons, and personal reflections from a congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, challenging the reader to a journey of...
Christianity and Politics
A Brief Guide to the History
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
It is not simply for rhetorical flourish that politicians so regularly invoke God's blessings on the country. It is because the relatively new form of power we call the nation-state arose out of a Western political imagination steeped in Christianity. In this brief guide to the history of Christianity...
Learning from a Legend
What Gardner C. Taylor Can Teach Us about Preaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died. When Gardner C. Taylor (1918-2015), former senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, departed this life at the age of ninety-six, the United States lost one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, not enough preachers...
After the Election
Prophetic Politics in a Post-Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The role of Evangelical Christianity in American public life is controversial. The mythology of America as a "Christian nation" and the promissory note of secularism have proved inadequate to cope with the increasing pluralism, the resilience of spirituality, and the wariness toward formal...
The God Who Saves
A Dogmatic Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Christian universalism has been explored in its biblical, philosophical, and historical dimensions. For the first time, The God Who Saves explores it in systematic theological perspective. In doing so it also offers a fresh take on universal salvation, one that is postmetaphysical, existential, and...