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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
Saving Paradise How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire Author:Rita Nakashima Brock, Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker, Rebecca Ann Parker 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. But he is never dead. When he appears with the cross, he stands in front of it, serene, resurrected in a world ablaze, in this world as paradise. But once he perished, dying was virtua... more »lly all Jesus seemed able to do. Saving Paradise offers a fascinating new lens on the history of 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.« less
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