Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
by Paul O. Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2006
Wrestling With God is concerned with conceptualizing a Christian pluralist theology of religious experience primarily in dialogue with Buddhism, but also in conversation with Confucian, Daoist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions as well as dialogue with the natural sciences. It is through such...
Meet Me at the Palaver
Narrative Pastoral Counseling in Postcolonial Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities. The book opens with stories of destructive change brought to indigenous contexts (such as Zimbabwe, Africa), wherein...
Anticipating Heaven Below
Optimism of Grace from Wesley to the Pentecostals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Wesleyanism is a movement of hope. Wesleyans and their Holiness and Pentecostal offspring pray and work with the expectancy that the love and power of God will transform hearts and lives, renew the church, and bring compassion, healing, and justice to a suffering world. In a variety of ways, from...
John Wesley
Optimist of Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
John Wesley was an Anglican priest and major leader in the eighteenth-century Evangelical awakening whose theology and practice continues to influence the church today. This book tells how his own search for a heart renewed in love ultimately led him to a fresh vision of the way of salvation, one...
Inventing Christic Jesuses, Volume 1
Rules and Warrants for Theology: Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Inventing Christic Jesuses is the first comprehensive proposal for how revisionist theology can deploy historical Jesus research in a methodologically sophisticated way. Rejecting positions that insulate theology from Jesus research, the proposal sets out warrants and rules for a quested Christology...
Theology—Descent into the Vicious Circles of Death
On the Fortieth Anniversary of Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans. The authors engage...
A Beautiful View
A Friendlier Christianity as a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
"God will never be mad at you!" Although the Bible assures us that God's essential nature is love, how seldom one hears such encouraging words in church. Maybe you are one of the many people who have dropped out of the church because of its prevalent portrayal of God as an unfriendly old...
by John M. Mulder, F. Morgan Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
It wouldn't be Christmas without Christmas carols. Virtually every Christian--and many non-Christians--would agree. The songs of Christmas can be heard from all kinds of media and all across the world in many languages. Christmas has become the biggest holiday in the United States and in virtually...
by John M. Mulder, F. Morgan Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
I remember more hymns than I do sermons. That's the verdict of nearly everyone, including preachers. This is a book for people who love hymns. In this book about twenty-eight of the classic and most cherished hymns, you'll find the stories behind the hymns and meditations on their meaning. You'll...
Apocalyptic Fever
End-Time Prophecies in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
How will the world end? Doomsday ideas in Western history have been both persistent and adaptable, peaking at various times, including in modern America. Public opinion polls indicate that a substantial number of Americans look for the return of Christ or some catastrophic event. The views expressed...
Holy Ground
An Alphabet of Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Too often we turn prayer into well-intentioned patterns of our own making. Too often we assume prayer is primarily about words. Sometimes there's an almost magical understanding that if we get the words right, if we trust enough or believe enough, God will "answer." But most of us know that...
Converging Destinies
Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
While all have reason to celebrate the greening of Christian-Jewish relations since the Shoah and the promulgation of Nostra Aetate (4), few will deny that much work remains to be done by Christians and Jews seeking the best way forward that they might best serve God's purposes in the world, the mission...
Bury the Dead
Stories of Death and Dying, Resistance and Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Bury the Dead is a collection of personal encounters with death: stories of Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, hospice, suicide, murder, systemic violence, genocide, and war. In this book a teenager tenderly washes her mother's body, a community organizer cries outrage over his blood-soaked comrade, a father...
Simone Weil
Mystic of Passion and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The present book reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic Simone Weil. It constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a Europe where authoritarian regimes were dominant and heading, in a sinister...