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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
by Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
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A fascinating theological study of how early Christianity's message of love and community has evolved into one of punishment and empire
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.
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 new lens on 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. It also retrieves, for today, a life-affirming Christianity that the world sorely needs.
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- May 1, 2009 Pub Date:
- 0807067547 ISBN-10:
- 9780807067543 ISBN-13:
- English Language
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