Rita Nakashima Brock is a theologian and co-author with Rebecca Ann Parker of Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us (Beacon Press, 2001) and Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire (Beacon Press, 2008). Brock is currently a director of Faith Voices for the Common Good.
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By Rita Nakashima Brock
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‘This present paradise’Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca ParkerFor almost 1,000 years, the Christian church emphasized paradise, not Crucifixion. How Christianity took a disastrous turn, and how we can rediscover paradise today.
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Can violence save?Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca ParkerChallenging the theology of redemptive suffering.