Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of this World for Crucifixion and Empire", by Rebecca Parker, co-authored with Rita Nakashima Brock.
Published by Beacon Press, 2008
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire restores the idea of Paradise to its rightful place at the center of Christian thought.
“Every Christian theologian and preacher should read this book and be profoundly challenged.”
— James H. Cone, author of Martin & Malcolm & America
Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker offer a fascinating new lens on the history of 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.
- from the publisher's announcement for
Saving Paradise
Visit the website for Saving Paradise at: www.SavingParadise.net
Rebecca Parker is President and Professor of Theology at Starr King School for the Ministry.
Walking to New Orleans: Ethics and the Concept of Participatory Design in Post-Disaster Reconstruction by Robert R. N. Ross, adjunct faculty member at Starr King School for the Ministry
Published by Wipf & Stock, 2008
An important new book about the New Orleans hurricane tragedy has just been published by Wipf & Stock, authored by Robert Ross, adjunct faculty member at Starr King School for the Ministry. “Walking to New Orleans” traces how a dominant but
paradoxical model of the relation between the human and natural worlds in Western culture
has informed many environmental and engineering dilemmas and has contributed to the
history of social inequities and injustice that anteceded the disasters of the hurricanes and
subsequent flooding.
“Walking to New Orleans is an astonishingly informed and informative account of one of the major
human, natural, and political disasters in recent memory.”
— Professor Mark C. Taylor,
Chair, Department of Religion, and Co-Director of the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University
Cluett Professor of Humanities, Williams College
Robert R. N. Ross teaches courses in the
areas of philosophy and the study of religion at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, and at Starr King School for the
Ministry/Graduate Th eological Union in Berkeley, California; he
also works with congregations in transition as an ordained
Unitarian Universalist minister.
View the publisher's announcement for Walking to New Orleans (pdf, 4.8mb).
