[PDF.48ix] 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

[PDF.po93] Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

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 | #140886 in Books |  Beacon Press |  2009-05-01 |  2009-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.60 x6.00l,1.85 | File type: PDF | 576 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Prepare to be challenged|By Norma McL|It's a wonderful book, and it may well change your emphases if you are a Christian. The early Christians were very life-affirming--even though they were treated horribly because Christianity was seen as a bizarre cult. With respectability, however, the Christian message became distorted, and with that distortion came the Crusades and so muc|From Booklist|Brock and Parker begin their research perplexed by a riddle: Why are images of the crucified Christ absent from early Christian art? After visiting Mediterranean and European sites sacred to early Ch

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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 n...

You easily download any file type for your device.Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire   |  Rebecca Ann Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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