Cascade Books publishes new works in religion that combine academic rigor with broad appeal and readability. Specializing in a wide array of disciplines, Cascade Books promotes conversation essential to the academy and the life of faith communities with books in theology, biblical studies, religious history, spirituality, ministry, cultural criticism, and more.
In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics. In Carnehl's estimation, this critical conversation between the John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde, culminated in the brilliant approach of G. K. Chesterton, who began his journalistic career with a series of insightful works of art criticism. By conducting a close reading of these largely neglected works, Carnehl demonstrates that Chesterton developed a theological aesthetic that focuses us on the revelation of God's image in every human being. In Chesterton's eyes, only those made in God's image can produce images themselves, and only those who receive a revelation of truth are able to reveal truths for others. Art is therefore a rich and symbolic unveiling of the truth of humanity which finds its origin and purpose in God the Divine Artist.
A Holistic Approach to Spiritual Care for the Mothering Pastor
by Alyssa Lynn Bell
$21.00
£17.00
AU$33.00
ISBN: 9781666763430
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Self-care and soul care are trending topics in Christian leadership circles because ministry leaders know they cannot care for their people unless they care for themselves. Pastors who are mothers know...
Edited by Lisa Bowens, Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica
$28.00
£23.00
AU$42.00
ISBN: 9781725258174
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Romans is the most influential New Testament book in the history of Christian theology: it has shaped Christian theology, how the gospel is framed, and how the Christian life is understood. Preaching...
God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste provides a starting point for scholars who seek to familiarize themselves with the work of this French phenomenologist and theologian. Thirteen international scholars comment on Lacoste’s work. In conclusion the volume offers an unpublished essay by Lacoste on the topic of eschatology. / Table of Contents — Introduction: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste by Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci / Part I: Critiques — 1. “‘Children of the World’: A Note on Jean-Yves Lacoste,” by Kevin Hart / 2. “Lacoste on Appearing and Reduction,” by Steven DeLay / 3. “Reduction Without Appearance: The Non-Phenomenality of God,” by Robert C. Reed / 4. “Only Metaphysics Sustains Phenomenology,” by John Milbank / Part II: Commentaries — 5. “Canonical Texts,” by Oliver O’Donovan / 6. “Reading Prayerfully Before God: Jean-Yves Lacoste’s Treatment of Lectio Divina as an Instance of Existence Coram Deo,” by Christina M. Gschwandtner /...
Edited by Philip John Paul Gonzales and Joseph Micah McMeans
$35.00
£28.00
AU$53.00
ISBN: 9781666710489
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The late Jean-Louis Chrétien's responsorial and polyphonic style of thinking is nothing less than a performance of gratitude, which manifests the many ways and manners that our wounded finitude is graced and blessed along the peregrine path of human existence. Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien is a receptive celebratory response to the immense fecundity and potential of Chrétien's "thank you" of gratitude. This volume gathers leading Chrétien scholars and thinkers to explicate, explore, think with, and commemorate his thought. The essays in the volume engage Chrétien's work from three primary fields: phenomenological, literary/poetic, and theological. Finitude's Wounded Praise is a diverse, exploratory, and impressive testament to the expansive and enduring richness of Chrétien's oeuvre.
Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza-Álvarez OP, Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor and Daniel Franklin E. Pilario CM
Foreword by Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ
$43.00
£34.00
AU$68.00
ISBN: 9781666719970
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This volume is the first truly global commentary on a papal encyclical. Pope Francis published Fratelli Tutti in October 2020 in the midst of interrelated global crises: climate catastrophe, ongoing racial injustice, a widening gap between the rich and the desperately poor, battles over human migration, the rise of authoritarian politics, and the erosion of democracy, all exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The encyclical provided a sobering assessment of the devastation but also a hopeful vision of solidarity and healing. The responses in this book not only reflect on Fratelli Tutti from a great diversity of locations and perspectives but also attempt to model Francis's call to fraternity and sorority within this volume. In these pages, scholars from around the world create a conversation meant to embody one of the virtues that Francis elicits in the encyclical: creative openness to the reciprocal gifts of others. This book takes up Pope...
Humanity in Christ before, during, and after the Fall
by Jeff McSwain
Foreword by Chris Tilling
$40.00
£33.00
AU$63.00
ISBN: 9781666739251
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
A work of systematic theology for systemic change . . . Does God's grace grab you and stir you to purposeful, Spirit-filled living? Or is the gospel that you hear and preach big on belief and short...
Edited by Amos Yong, Mark A. Lamport and Timothy T. N. Lim
$40.00
£33.00
AU$62.00
ISBN: 9781666728996
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the series) moved along various routes to...
In 1755, John Wesley was forced to rest for a year because of illness. In that year, he wrote his Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. These were meant to provide brief commentary on the text for...
This book delivers an unsettling but urgent message to all educators . . . Today, humanity finds itself on the cusp of a long period of inexorable decline and disruption, the likes of which no previous...
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Cascade Books publishes new works in religion that combine academic rigor with broad appeal and readability. Specializing in a wide array of disciplines, Cascade Books promotes conversation essential to the academy and the life of faith communities with books in theology, biblical studies, religious history, spirituality, ministry, cultural criticism, and more. 
