Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Thomas Merton
Twentieth-Century Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Thomas Merton was arguably the twentieth century's most widely published and widely read spiritual writer. This book explores Merton's prophetic writings and experience as they offer guidance for spiritual seekers in their search to experience God, to simplify their lives, to live more humanly, and...
Community of the Transfiguration
The Journey of a New Monastic Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
In the 1930s, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer anticipated the restoration of the church after the coming second world war through a new kind of monasticism, a way of life of uncompromising adherence to the Sermon on the Mount in imitation of Christ. Since then, the renewal of Christian monasticism...
Come and See
Presbyterian Congregations Celebrating Weekly Communion
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Why has there been such an increase in the number of Presbyterian congregations celebrating the Lord's Supper every week? Come and See explores the following causes: generational change, ecumenical convergence, revisiting Reformed roots, heightened interest in spirituality, new perspectives offered...
by Kevin Giles
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In this book, What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, he gives the most comprehensive account to date of the competing conclusions to this question and the issues surrounding it. To understand the bitter and divisive debate...
From Text to Performance
Narrative and Performance Criticisms in Dialogue and Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
For the last two centuries biblical interpretation has been guided by perspectives that have largely ignored the oral context in which the gospels took shape. Only recently have scholars begun to explore how ancient media inform the interpretive process and an understanding of the Bible. This collection...
The Gift of Ethics
A Story for Discovering Lasting Significance in Your Daily Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Structured on the Beatitudes, The Gift of Ethics is a short, readable introduction to the major ideas in Christian ethics. Bechtel engages the reader through stories to draw out reflection on the good life.
Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not)
An Evangelical Animal Liberation Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Why should Christians care about animals? Is there a biblical basis for abstaining from eating animals? Is avoiding companies that use (and misuse) animals a viable way for Christians to better live out the message of God? In Animals Are Not Ours, Sarah Withrow King makes the argument that care for...
by Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence, oppression, and slavery; from the lament and defiance of so many Middle Eastern women, victims of male...
OMG
Growing Our God Images
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
The plot thickens--in novels and our lives--forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative. We look at the god we're holding, and find it too fragile, too brittle to meet reality. Cling tighter? Move on godless? In fact, rejecting a god image (or as C. S. Lewis puts...
by Joshua W. Jipp
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
The book of Acts tells the story of what happened after the death and resurrection of Jesus. The book is filled with adventure and entertainment as Acts narrates God's activity among his people and the world. In this book I explore one way of reading Acts that attends closely to the plotline of the...
by Paul O. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Memories seldom happen in straight lines with chronological precision, but occur most often in spirals. Paul Ingram's essays collected in Faith as Remembering were created from memories. These memories, often in unpredictable ways, pushed him to new insights about the nature of Christian faith--insights...
by Paul O. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
The interdependence of boundary questions and the experience of cognitive dissonance reveal that knowledge in all fields of inquiry is always incomplete and tentative. The issues are particularly acute for Christian theological reflection. Ingram illustrates the importance of boundary questions and...
Passing Over and Returning
A Pluralist Theology of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In Passing Over and Returning Paul O. Ingram describes his particular dialogue with the world's religions, illustrated by his experience of passing over into Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism, Judaism, and Islam, and by his return to his home as a Lutheran Christian. While religious diversity...
by Paul O. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While process philosophers and theologians have written numerous essays on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, few have sought to expand the current Buddhist-Christian dialogue into a trilogue by bringing the natural sciences into the discussion as a third partner. This was the topic of Paul O. Ingram's...