Books published by Cascade Books

This volume gathers together twelve essays on the doctrine of the Trinity. It includes the work of systematic theologians, analytic theologians, and biblical scholars who address a range of issues concerning the Christian doctrine of God. Contributors include Jeremy Begbie, Julie Canlis, Douglas Campbell, William Hasker, and Christoph Schwobel. The volume also includes a new essay written by the late Robert W. Jenson shortly before his death.""The doctrine of the Trinity stands at the very heart of the Christian faith and is key to understanding every facet of the Christian life. It ensures that Christian worship and witness to what God has done (and continues to do) stems from who God is eternally. This impressive collection of essays will both help and inspire its readers to dig deeper into what Christians affirm about the being of God, as well as the grounds and significance of those affirmations. Eccletic in mix, wide-ranging in scope, and rich in insights, this volume offers us a wonderful view into the latest thinking on this topic from several world-renowned theologians. It is a source of immense encouragement that a trinitarian focus in theology continues to thrive both in our churches and in the academy today. Thanks be to God!""--Alan J. Torrance, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St AndrewsLincoln Harvey is Assistant Dean and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Mellitus College, London.

Should women be priests?Should women submit to their husbands?Is premarital sex okay?Inflammatory questions such as these have splintered Christianity and polarized the church. In Sex, Gender, and Christianity, a cadre of seasoned college professors offers the modest proposal that honest, fruitful conversations about these questions will take place only if we develop the ability to deal with sex, gender, and the Christian faith with the academic rigor and perspectives of our various disciplines. This volume contributes an unprecedented collection of first-rate articles from a variety of disciplines--from the social sciences to history, from literary criticism to theology--that will challenge college administrators, professors, and students to address fractious questions in an atmosphere of scholarly inquiry.""This is a courageous book. At a time when clouds of fear and confusion hover over college classrooms when it comes to talking about sex and gender, here we have a responsible and creative treatment of these thorny topics. It would be a mistake to bypass this book as yet another treatment of sex and gender, because you will not find anything else like it.""--Willie James Jennings, Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School ""Sex, Gender, and Christianity is a much-needed corrective to polarizing arguments about women''s roles and their expectations for equality. Probing historical exemplars from Eve to Carrie Bradshaw, the book''s authors exchange heat for light on a topic that sorely needs the latter. This will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate courses in both religious and gender studies.""--Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion, USC Annenberg School for CommunicationPriscilla Pope-Levison is Professor of Theology and Assistant Director of Women''s Studies at Seattle Pacific University, and Affiliate Faculty in Women Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists (2004).John (Jack) R. Levison is Professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life (2012); Filled with the Spirit (2009); and Texts in Transition: the Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2000).Together they are the authors of Jesus in Global Contexts (1992) and editors of Return to Babel: Global Perspectives on the Bible (1999).

We human beings are mortal. Our lives in this world inevitably terminate in death. This reality, however, need not cause us to despair, since Jesus Christ has gone before us into the far country of death, giving us hope that this defining feature of our earthly lives is not the end, but instead is an entrance into Christ's presence and a path to the fullness of the Spirit's new creation in which God will be all in all. Christian Dying: Witnesses from the Tradition is a collection of essays containing reflections from Christian authors--whether Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant--on the meaning and appropriation of Christian hope in the face of death in conversation with a number of great voices from the Christian tradition.CONTRIBUTORS: Michel Rene Barnes, John C. Cavadini, Marc Cortez, Brian E. Daley, S.J., Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Matthew Levering, David Luy, Mark McIntosh, Gilbert Meilaender, Cyril O'Regan, Marcus Plested, Brent Waters."Our deaths are closer than we are used to admitting. By showing us how palpably close death was for the great theologians of the Christian tradition, the first-rank authors of this remarkable volume offer the rich and untapped resources of the Christian tradition to beings who must learn that they too will pass away like the flowers of the field."--Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, King's College, UKGeorge Kalantzis is Professor of Theology and Director of The Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies at Wheaton College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Caesar and the Lamb: Early Christian Attitudes on War and Military Service.Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. Among his many books are Dying and the Virtues and On Christian Dying: Classic and Contemporary Texts.

This volume gathers together twelve essays on the doctrine of the Trinity. It includes the work of systematic theologians, analytic theologians, and biblical scholars who address a range of issues concerning the Christian doctrine of God. Contributors include Jeremy Begbie, Julie Canlis, Douglas Campbell, William Hasker, and Christoph Schwobel. The volume also includes a new essay written by the late Robert W. Jenson shortly before his death.""The doctrine of the Trinity stands at the very heart of the Christian faith and is key to understanding every facet of the Christian life. It ensures that Christian worship and witness to what God has done (and continues to do) stems from who God is eternally. This impressive collection of essays will both help and inspire its readers to dig deeper into what Christians affirm about the being of God, as well as the grounds and significance of those affirmations. Eccletic in mix, wide-ranging in scope, and rich in insights, this volume offers us a wonderful view into the latest thinking on this topic from several world-renowned theologians. It is a source of immense encouragement that a trinitarian focus in theology continues to thrive both in our churches and in the academy today. Thanks be to God!""--Alan J. Torrance, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St AndrewsLincoln Harvey is Assistant Dean and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Mellitus College, London.

Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life looks at both ends of the telescope: the unfathomable reaches of cosmic space and the excited stirrings within the human psyche. It takes a scientist to explain what we are looking at. It takes a theologian to understand who is doing the looking.This book''s scientific authors update readers on astrobiology''s search for extraterrestrial life. Theologians add to the science a theological analysis of the place of space in understanding God''s creative work, the prospects of sharing God''s creation with extraterrestrial neighbors, and the question of whether one or many incarnations are required for cosmic redemption.Finally, these scholars lay the foundations for an ethic of space exploration. This book introduces a comprehensive astrotheology with an accompanying astroethic.""In this fascinating book, the authors not only update readers on contemporary cosmology and astrobiology''s search for extraterrestrial life, but also develop the kind of public, interdisciplinary theology where both theology and the sciences are reshaped to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of what will be at stake for these widely divergent disciplines once extraterrestrial life is discovered.""--J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological Seminary""This book is a treat for those who tire of treatments of astrobiology that focus only on the science and the technology of the subject. The very likely existence of intelligence and sentience elsewhere in the universe begs questions that center on philosophy and religion. This scholarly and entertaining treatment of these issues is very welcome.""--Chris Impey, University of Arizona""Here is a much needed book by leading thinkers in the field--deeply grounded in Christian theology and sensitive to the scientific complexities.""--David Wilkerson, St. John''s CollegeTheologians and scientists at the Francisco J. Ayala Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California, have edited this comprehensive volume. Editor-in-chief Ted Peters teaches systematic theology and ethics at the GTU. Partner editors include Robert John Russell, Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science at the GTU; Joshua Moritz, managing editor of the journal Theology and Science on behalf of CTNS; and Martinez Hewlett, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona and adjunct professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the GTU.

This volume is the first in a series of volumes surveying the important names, movements, and institutions that have been significant in forging black renewal movements in various contexts worldwide. In this volume the entries cover the more than 150 identifiable Holiness, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Neo-Pentecostal, and quasi-Pentecostal bodies within the United States and Canada. In addition, the dictionary contains entries on the important people, places, events, and theological and secular issues that shaped these groups over their histories, some of which go back more than a century. This and subsequent volumes will be invaluable tools for students and scholars of the history of Pentecostalism.""'Insightful,' 'informative,' and 'interesting' are key words that describe well The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism edited by Estrelda Alexander. As the first of a planned four-volume series, this book focuses on the African American Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. With pithy biographical entries as well as concise thematic entries, the dictionary introduces the reader to an array of topics, debates, and personalities that defined the movement historically and shapes it today."" --David D. Daniels, Henry Winters Luce Professor of World Christianity, McCormick Theological Seminary Estrelda Alexander is President of William Seymour College in Bowie, Maryland. She is the author of Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism (2011) and Black Fire Reader (2013).