Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire
- ISBN-10
- 0807067504
- ISBN-13
- 9780807067505
- Series
- Saving Paradise
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 552
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Authors
- Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker
Description
A fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity asks how its early vision of beauty evolved into a vision of torture, restoring the idea of paradise to its rightful place at the center of Christian thought.
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- 2008-07-01
- 576 pages
- Ebook
- Beacon Press
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- 2012-07-01
- 577 pages
- Paperback
- Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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