Saving paradise
Subtitle: how Christianity traded love of this world for crucifixion and empire
By: Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Rebecca Ann.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780807067505
Subjects: Theology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Paradise -- Christianity -- History of doctrines; Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Creation
Description: "Saving Paradise offers a new lens on the history of Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, and asks how its early vision of beauty evolved into one of torture. In tracing the changes in society and theology that marked the medieval emergence of images of Christ crucified, Saving Paradise exposes the imperial strategies embedded in theologies of redemptive violence and sheds new light on Christianity's turn to holy war. It reveals how the New World, established through Christian conquest and colonization, is haunted by the loss of a spiritual understanding of paradise here and now."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-515) and index.