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Brock, Rita Nakashima.

Saving Paradise : How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (574 pages)

Intro -- Saving Paradise -- Prologue -- Part One -- Chapter One: In the Beginning . . . Paradise on the Earth -- Chapter Two: In the Beginning . . . God So Generously Loved -- Chapter Three: So Great a Cloud -- Chapter Four: The Church as Paradise in This World -- Chapter Five: The Portal to Paradise -- Chapter Six: The Beautiful Feast of Life -- Chapter Seven: Gods Seeing God -- Chapter Eight: Hidden Treasures of Wisdom -- Part Two -- Chapter Nine: The Expulsion of Paradise -- Chapter Ten: Peace by the Blood of the Cross -- Chapter Eleven: Dying for Love -- Chapter Twelve: Escape Routes -- Chapter Thirteen: Weeping Encounters -- Chapter Fourteen: The Struggle for Paradise -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN: 9780807097632

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Paradise -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Creation.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BT23 -- .B76 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 230.09