KALOS
The word kalos (καλὸς) means beautiful. It is the call of the good; that which arouses interest, desire: “I am here.” Beauty brings the appetite to rest at the same time as it wakens the mind from its daily slumber, calling us to look afresh at that which is before our very eyes. It makes virgins of us all, and of everything—there, before us, lies something that we never noticed before. Beauty consists in integritas sive perfectio [integrity and perfection] and claritas [brightness/clarity]. It is the reason why we rise and why we sleep—that great night of dependence, one that reveals the borrowed existence of all things, if, that is, there is to be a thing at all, or if there is to be a person at all. Here lies the ground of all science, of philosophy, and of all theology, indeed of our each and every day.
This series will seek to provide intelligent-yet-accessible volumes that have the innocence of beauty and true adventure, and in so doing remind us all again of that which we took for granted, most of all thought itself.
Series Editors:
Conor Cunningham
Eric Austin Lee
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All This, and Heaven Too
A Guide for All Souls
$40.00
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ISBN: 9798385214112
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This book offers an intelligent but accessible recovery of the Christian hope for heaven and the resurrected life. Our ideas of heaven often need rescuing from the well-meaning but often empty sense...
Ten Meditations for Catching and Losing One’s Breath
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ISBN: 9781666766110
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The deepest words are the most prosaic. They are enriched by everybody's voice, and only through them are our joys, sufferings, doubts, and choices illuminated and shared. This book's brief meditations...
The Artist as Divine Symbol
Chesterton’s Theological Aesthetic
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ISBN: 9781666763072
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
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.
Anchorhold
Corresponding with Revelations of Divine Love
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ISBN: 9781725276581
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This is a book of letters, letters to Julian of Norwich concerning her Revelations of Divine Love. It is an attempt to search for my life by giving myself heart and soul to the teaching of a text and...
Socrates and Other Saints
Early Christian Understandings of Reason and Philosophy
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ISBN: 9781498278737
Pub Date: January 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Many contemporary writers misunderstand early Christian views on philosophy because they identify the critical stances of the ante-Nicene fathers toward specific pagan philosophical schools with a general...
Gifts Glittering and Poisoned
Spectacle, Empire, and Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9781620327159
Pub Date: November 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Spectacles designed to capture our attention surround us. Marketing, movies, shopping malls, concerts, and virtual realities capture our imaginations and cultivate our desires. We live in a "society...
Returning to Reality
Christian Platonism for Our Times
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ISBN: 9781610979245
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Could it be that we have lost touch with some basic human realities in our day of high-tech efficiency, frenetic competition, and ceaseless consumption? Have we turned from the moral, the spiritual,...
An Ocean Vast of Blessing
A Theology of Grace
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ISBN: 9781620322482
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Humans are made in the image of God, and authentically coming to be human means to become like him. This work pursues a robust and renewed theology of grace in conversation with the patristic traditions...
All This, and Heaven Too
A Guide for All Souls
$40.00
£31.00
AU$60.00
ISBN: 9798385214112
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Ten Meditations for Catching and Losing One’s Breath
$19.00
£15.00
AU$29.00
ISBN: 9781666766110
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
The Artist as Divine Symbol
Chesterton’s Theological Aesthetic
$22.00
£19.00
AU$35.00
ISBN: 9781666763072
Pub Date: October 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Anchorhold
Corresponding with Revelations of Divine Love
$28.00
£25.00
AU$44.00
ISBN: 9781725276581
Pub Date: January 2021
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Socrates and Other Saints
Early Christian Understandings of Reason and Philosophy
$19.00
£17.00
AU$25.00
ISBN: 9781498278737
Pub Date: January 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Gifts Glittering and Poisoned
Spectacle, Empire, and Metaphysics
$23.00
£21.00
AU$31.00
ISBN: 9781620327159
Pub Date: November 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
Returning to Reality
Christian Platonism for Our Times
$30.00
£25.00
AU$41.00
ISBN: 9781610979245
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
An Ocean Vast of Blessing
A Theology of Grace
$33.00
£29.00
AU$46.00
ISBN: 9781620322482
Pub Date: July 2014
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books