Cascade Books imprint: 771 books
Morning Resolve
To Live a Simple, Sincere, and Serene Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
"A Morning Resolve," an Episcopal prayer printed on the inside front cover of Forward Day by Day, is a "help me tend my spiritual garden" prayer. It asks for God's help in living a simple, sincere, and serene life--by repelling negative thoughts and attitudes (discontent, anxiety,...
Playing with Dragons
Living with Suffering and God
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
There be dragons all over the Bible. From the great sea monsters of Genesis to the great dragon of Revelation, dragons appear as the Bible opens and closes, and they pop their grisly heads up at various junctures in between. How did they get there and what on earth (or indeed in heaven) are they doing...
Angels
Ancient Whispers of Another World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
If you think you know all about angels, think again! Although the modern Western world claims to have left angels behind as mythical creatures, they are back in popular culture. And much of what people are thinking, exploring, and believing about them finds its roots in ancient Jewish and Christian...
The Shape of Participation
A Theology of Church Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God....
Pastoral Work
Engagements with the Vision of Eugene Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Eugene Peterson may be the most influential theological writer in the church today. Yet because most of his career has not been in academia there is not much critical engagement with his work. Here some of the finest scholar-pastors we have describe the way Peterson has inspired and infuriated on the way to (hopefully) more faithful pastorates.
The Interfaith Imperative
Religion, Dialogue, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Globally we seem torn between local, exclusive forms of religion, which can cause immense spiritual and physical damage to people, and a bland secularism that confines the religions to safe havens, each offering its own private options for "spirituality" within a secularized global politic....
Theology and Human Flourishing
Essays in Honor of Timothy J. Gorringe
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
This collection of essays is a celebration of the work of Timothy Gorringe. Like his theology, it is animated by a delighted and critical engagement with the diverse facets of human social life, and by a passionate concern to wrestle with the Bible and the Christian tradition in pursuit of human flourishing....
Religion and Doctor Who
Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Doctor Who has always contained a rich current of religious themes and ideas. In its very first episode it asked how humans rationalize the seemingly supernatural, as two snooping schoolteachers refused to accept that the TARDIS was real. More recently it has toyed with the mystery of Doctor's real...
The Unknown God
Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
What is the so-called New Atheism? The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a cluster of authors who have attained public notoriety through their mockery of religion and their popularizing of atheism. How should Christians and other believers understand and respond to this aggressive...
Wagner’s Parsifal
An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Parsifal, Wagner's final opera, is considered by many to be one of the greatest religious musical works ever composed; but it is also one of the most difficult to understand and many have questioned whether it can be considered a Christian work at all. Added to this is the furious debate that has...
Procreative Ethics
Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions intelligible...
God the Spirit
Introducing Pneumatology in Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Who is the mysterious Holy Spirit, and why does it matter for the Christian life? How do we know when the Spirit is working? This book introduces the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Wesleyan theological tradition and within the greater church. It covers key biblical bases for thinking about the Spirit, and it seeks to inspire confidence in the Spirit's power.
by George Pattison, Helle Møller Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever. In this way, some of Kierkegaard's complex religious thought is made accessible to a wider readership,...
Christmas Eve Celebration
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book is about the meanings of Christmas. It makes for a fine Christmas present--written in popular, poetic style--and is a literary classic. This little dialogue shared by women, men and children on Christmas Eve is the jewel in the crown of Schleiermacher's theological writings. It features...