Saving Paradise How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire 1st Edition by Rebecca Ann Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock ISBN 0807097632 9780807097632

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ISBN 10: 0807097632

ISBN 13: 9780807097632

Author:  Rebecca Ann Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock 

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire 1st Edition: A fascinating theological study of how early Christianity’s message of love and community has evolved into one of punishment and empire During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence—as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. He is serene and surrounded by lush scenes, depictions of this world as paradise. Yet once he appeared as crucified, dying was virtually all Jesus seemed able to do, and paradise disappeared from the earth.    Saving Paradise turns a fascinating new lens on Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, asking how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, and what changes in society and theology marked that evolution. It also retrieves, for today, a life-affirming Christianity that the world sorely needs.

 

Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One

• In the beginning… paradise on the earth
• In the beginning … God so generously loved
• So great a cloud
• The church as paradise in this world
• The portal to paradise
• The beautiful feast of life
• Gods seeing God
• Hidden treasures of wisdom

Part Two

• The expulsion of paradise
• Peace by the blood of the cross
• Dying for love
• Escape routes
• Weeping encounters
• The struggle for paradise

 

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