Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Performing the Gospel
Exploring the Borderland of Worship, Entertainment, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
What is the difference between good worship and good entertainment? Too often, people disparage some aspect of worship by calling it "just entertainment" or "just a performance." Others say that they do not need to go to church because they have profound spiritual or even religious...
Sanctifying Art
Inviting Conversation Between Artists, Theologians, and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
As an artist, Deborah Sokolove has often been surprised and dismayed by the unexamined attitudes and assumptions that the church holds about how artists think and how art functions in human life. By investigating these attitudes and tying them to concrete examples, Sokolove hopes to demystify art--to...
My Quests for Hope and Meaning
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This book is an autobiography tracing Rosemary Radford Ruether's intellectual development and writing career. Ruether examines the influence of her mother and family on her development and particularly her interactions with the Roman Catholic religious tradition. She delves into her exploration of...
Evangelical Peacemakers
Gospel Engagement in a War-Torn World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book contains fifteen essays originally presented at a conference on evangelical Christianity and global peacemaking held at Georgetown University in September 2012, together with a critical analysis of the collection by the editor, David P. Gushee. The essays fall into two categories: the first...
In the Fray
Contesting Christian Public Ethics, 1994–2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the Fray collects David Gushee's most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual. Most of the essays were written in situations of ethical conflict on the highly contested ground of Christian public ethics. Topics addressed include torture, climate change, marriage and divorce,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Cultural and ethnic diversity is the reality of our world, and much more so in this age of heightened globalization. Yet, do our ways of doing theological education match with our current reality and hopes for a colorful and just tomorrow? How shall we do theological formation so it helps give birth...
by Dwight N. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
What do African American men have to do with gender? In this collection of riveting and wide-ranging essays, Dwight N. Hopkins draws on over thirty-five years of wrestling with these questions. Too often gender is seen as a "woman's only" discussion. But in reality, men have a gender too....
Walk Together Children
Black and Womanist Theologies, Church and Theological Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Church, and Theological Education draws on the long religious, cultural, and singing history of blacks in the U.S.A. Through the slavery and emancipation days until now, black song has both nurtured and enhanced African American life as a collective...
John Calvin, Myth and Reality
Images and Impact of Geneva’s Reformer. Papers of the 2009 Calvin Studies Society Colloquium
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
The chapters in this volume were originally presented as papers at the 2009 colloquium of the Calvin Studies Society, held to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of John Calvin's birth. They offer a fresh evaluation of Calvin's ideas and achievements, and describe how others--from his contemporaries...
Justice Calls
Sermons of Welcome and Affirmation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This collection of sermons adds compelling clarity to the growing chorus of Christian voices that are passionate about LGBTQ justice and equality--not in spite of their faith but precisely because of it. With a combination of pastoral sensitivity, scholarly insight, and courageous vision, these sermons...
Preaching After God
Derrida, Caputo, and the Language of Postmodern Homiletics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Even though the postmodern return of religion is dramatically shaping the future of twenty-first-century theology, its riches for preaching are rarely mined. Preaching After God highlights the trajectories of the postmodern return of religion by introducing readers to the positive theological themes...
The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission
Towards an Evangelical Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
In The End of Evangelicalism? David Fitch examines the political presence of evangelicalism as a church in North America. Amidst the negative image of evangelicalism in the national media and its purported decline as a church, Fitch asks how evangelicalism's belief and practice has formed it as a...
Why We Need the Church to Become More Like Jesus
Reflections about Community, Spiritual Formation, and the Story of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Many of us long to experience the fullness of God and his purpose for our lives. Not a whole lot of us ever do. The reason is that we have departed in some significant ways from the biblical view of Christian life and growth. The New Testament highlights the communal, missional, and eschatological...
Preaching Gospel
Essays in Honor of Richard Lischer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Teaching preaching, like preaching itself, is a noble endeavor. After nearly four decades of teaching, Richard Lischer has sent legions of preachers across the world to preach gospel. This volume pays tribute to his faith-filled life of preaching and teaching. The contributors, some of whom were taught...