Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
The Hermeneutical Spirit
Theological Interpretation and Scriptural Imagination for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In the contemporary biblical studies climate, proposals regarding the theological interpretation of Scripture are contested, particularly but not only because they privilege, encourage, and foster ecclesial or other forms of normative commitments as part and parcel of the hermeneutical horizon through...
The Missiological Spirit
Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists also have made their share of contributions to this area. This book brings the insights of pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion. It delineates...
The Kerygmatic Spirit
Apostolic Preaching in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This collection of fifteen sermons by one of the leading pentecostal theologians today provides insight into the form, style, and content of preaching in the pentecostal tradition while also being suggestive of normative homiletical theory and practice. The Kergymatic Spirit argues that Spirit-empowered...
Queer Theology
Beyond Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for...
Puzzling Passages in Paul
Forty Conundrums Calmly Considered
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts. The Second Letter of Peter, commenting about them, says: "There are some things in them that are hard to understand"...
Understanding Pannenberg
Landmark Theologian of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Wolfhart Pannenberg has forever changed the face of twentieth-century theology. His book on Christology constituted a turning-point away from Bultmann's existentialist theology, and convincingly vindicated belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus and its importance for theology. His numerous other...
Braided Selves
Collected Essays on Multiplicity, God, and Persons
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What if we are more multiple as persons than traditional psychology has taught us to believe? And what if our multiplicity is a part of how we are made in the very image of a loving, relational, multiple God? How have modern, Western notions of Oneness caused harm--to both individuals and society?...
Reexamining Love of Wisdom
Philosophical Desire from Socrates to Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It...
Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers
Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Following the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic religious orders underwent substantial reform. Nevertheless, on occasion monks and nuns had to be disciplined and--if they had committed a crime--punished. Consequently, many religious orders relied on sophisticated criminal law traditions that...
Beyond the Borders of Baptism
Catholicity, Allegiances, and Lived Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
People worldwide find themselves part of overlapping communities of identity and belonging--racial, political, cultural, sexual, ideological. Some identities, like brand loyalties, are chosen; some, like class identity, are imposed.
Scattered and Gathered
Catholics in Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: "Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills . . . gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth." For Christians today, these words...
The Borders of Baptism
Identities, Allegiances, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
It's a simple claim, really - that for Christians, being a Christian should be their primary allegiance and identity. For those who proclaim Jesus as Lord, this identity should supersede all others, and this loyalty should trump all lesser ones. It may be a simple claim, but it is a controversial...
New World Pope
Pope Francis and the Future of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
He has captured the imagination of people around the world, including those who thought they were "done with" Christianity. In ways no one could have expected and no one predicted, Pope Francis has become a living example of what it might mean to be a Christian in our time and place. The...
by Russell E. Richey
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Evidence of mainstream denominational decline virtually throws itself in our faces--growing religious pluralism in North America; the decline over the last half century in the salience, prestige, power, and vitality of Protestant denominational leadership; slippage in mainline membership and corresponding...