Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Tailings
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In August of 2001, Kaethe Schwehn needed her own, personal Eden. She was a twenty-two-year-old trying to come to terms with a failed romance, the dissolution of her parents' marriage, and her own floundering faith. At first, Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled in the Cascade Mountains,...
Twelve Great Books that Changed the University
And Why Christians Should Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Twelve scholars take us on a journey through twelve books that have defined the methodologies and orthodoxies of key disciplines within the university curriculum. These books have not only been formative for their respective disciplines, but have reshaped the university and continue to reframe our...
by Thomas W. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Former Prophets of the Hebrew Bible includes the books of Joshua through 2 Kings, a narrative of ancient Israel's history of some seven hundred years from the conquest of Canaan to the exile, when Israel lost the land. From a critical perspective the narrative is a composite document incorporating...
Deuteronomy
Law and Covenant
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book on Deuteronomy seeks to place before a broad audience of students and lay readers one of the important books among the first five books (together called the Pentateuch) in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It lifts up major themes in the book, one of the most prominent being Moses as prophet...
The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones's books not as a prophetic radical who...
Hebrews, the General Letters, and Revelation
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Most New Testament (NT) introductions, because of page limitations and other reasons, tend to minimize their treatment of the last nine books of the Christian Bible (from Hebrews to Revelation). The focus in these introductions is often on the four Gospels and the Letters of Paul. As important as...
by Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
"These recollections of a life-time in the Church and in different universities give rise to a diverse series of anecdotes, which provide, first, some entertaining humor, second, a glimpse into both academic and church life, and third my attempted contributions to Christian theology. Teaching...
Soul Mentoring
Discover the Ancient Art of Caring for Others
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Soul Mentoring draws upon the wisdom of Gregory the Great (540-604) from his Pastoral Care, one of the most widely read books on mentoring from the ancient world. Those who walk in Gregory's steps will discover practical guidance for the journey into mentoring, including the formation of a mentor's...
Chasing the Shadow—the World and Its Times
An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Christian natural theology is founded on the proper coordination of Scripture and the created world, what was once called "The Two Books" of God. Carrying forward the work he began in The World in the Shadow of God, Radner here reflects on the way that Scripture's creative relationship with...
Caesar and the Sacrament
Baptism: A Rite of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
When the earliest Christ-followers were baptized they participated in a politically subversive act. Rejecting the Empire's claim that it had a divine right to rule the world, they pledged their allegiance to a kingdom other than Rome and a king other than Caesar (Acts 17:7). Many books explore...
by Walter Brueggemann
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Like athletes, preachers carry inside them the voices of their most challenging coaches--people who have encouraged them to dig deeper, stretch farther, and more faithfully pursue their craft and calling. In these crystalline essays, Walter Brueggemann is that voice again, shaking us free of the dust...
The Passion of the Infant Christ
Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although forgotten until quite recently, Caryll Houselander, who died in 1954, was a sensitive and profound English Roman Catholic writer on Christian spirituality. In this critical edition of her 1949 book The Passion of the Infant Christ, Houselander argues that the physical world is an "inscaped"...
Catholicism and Buddhism
The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of Jesus and Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The recent tide of books comparing Christianity and Buddhism has centered mostly on similarities. The Dalai Lama, for example, provided his opinions on Christianity in a popular book, The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus (1996). Other writers have equally sought to describe...
by Owen F. Cummings
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Many books exist devoted to the life, thought, and writings of Blessed John Henry Newman, the premier Catholic theologian in nineteenth-century England. His influence has been enormous, perhaps especially on Vatican II (1962-65). This book is a Newman primer, and not only a primer about Newman himself,...