Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Loving to Know
Covenant Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Knowing is less about information and more about transformation; less about comprehension and more about being apprehended. This radical book develops the notion of covenant epistemology--an innovative, biblically compatible, holistic, embodied, life-shaping epistemological vision in which all knowing...
Preaching the New Testament Again
Faith, Freedom, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This book combines critical New Testament scholarship with homiletic concerns. Kim unravels complexities of the most prominent themes in the New Testament such as faith, freedom, and transformation, and brings them into dialogue with modern preaching contexts, ranging from personal identity to social...
A Transformative Reading of the Bible
Explorations of Holistic Human Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In A Transformative Reading of the Bible Yung Suk Kim raises critical questions about human transformation in biblical studies. What is transformation? How are we transformed when we read biblical stories? Are all transformative aspects equally valid? What kind of relationships exists between self,...
A Theological Introduction to Paul’s Letters
Exploring a Threefold Theology of Paul
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
In this study Kim explores a new way of reading Paul's letters and understanding his theology with a focus on three aspects of Paul's gospel: the righteousness of God, faith of Christ, and the body of Christ. Kim argues that Paul's thought can be best understood by reading these genitives as the subjective...
Resurrecting Jesus
The Renewal of New Testament Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Jesus cannot be domesticated! In Resurrecting Jesus Kim asks the fundamental two-prong question, "What, then, can we learn from Jesus, and how can we build on the significance of his life and work as we do theology for our day in the here and now?" Kim abandons the traditional divide between criticism...
Messiah in Weakness
A Portrait of Jesus from the Perspective of the Dispossessed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Yung Suk Kim raises a perennial question about Jesus: How can we approach the historical Jesus? Kim proposes to interpret him from the perspective of the dispossessed--through the eyes of weakness. Exploring Jesus's experience, interpretation, and enactment of weakness, understanding weakness as both...
Truth, Testimony, and Transformation
A New Reading of the “I Am” Sayings of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Investigating various contexts of the I am sayings in Jewish and Hellenistic traditions, including the immediate context of the Johannine community, Kim seeks to explore the themes and structure of the I am sayings of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel. In doing so, Kim demonstrates how the I am sayings of...
The Long Goodbye
Dementia Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries discusses a disease that is both personal and social for more than five million patients and their families and friends in the United States today. Now that there are medical strategies for preventing and/or curing strokes, heart attacks, even cancer, many more people...
by Margaret R. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Several years before his death, Augustine of Hippo reviewed his published works, commenting on his purpose in writing each, and correcting, from his present perspective, the mistakes he noticed. Inspired by Augustine's Retractationes, Miles's Recollections and Reconsiderations undertakes a similar...
Getting Here from There
Conversations on Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This book of conversations between Margaret R. Miles and Hiroko Sakomura compares the experiences of two women who grew up in different societies, with different educations, different professions, and different religious orientations. Reflecting on the different ways in which Japanese and American...
by Margaret R. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction. Although there are resources for people with each of these conditions--psychiatry for mental illness and twelve-step programs for addiction--there...
Beyond the Centaur
Imagining the Intelligent Body
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body. Part I explores the gradual historical development of this notion of...
Bodies in Society
Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Education is about learning to think. Much of what we call thinking, however, is a hodge-podge of repetitious self-talk, opinion, and cutting and pasting of second-hand ideas. Moreover, thinking in the present has often been alien to scholars who were tempted to think abstractly. But life and thought...
by Margaret R. Miles
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and...