Rita Nakashima Brock

Rita Nakashima Brock

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

  • ‘This present paradise’
    Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Parker

    For almost 1,000 years, the Christian church emphasized paradise, not Crucifixion. How Christianity took a disastrous turn, and how we can rediscover paradise today.

  • Can violence save?
    Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Parker
    Challenging the theology of redemptive suffering.

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