Rita Nakashima Brock: 3 books

Book cover of Proverbs of Ashes

Proverbs of Ashes

Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us

by Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015

Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have...
Book cover of Soul Repair

Soul Repair

Recovering from Moral Injury after War

by Rita Nakashima Brock, Gabriella Lettini
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

The first book to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families, and their communities   Although veterans make up only 7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for an alarming 20 percent of all suicides. And though treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder has undoubtedly...
Book cover of Saving Paradise

Saving Paradise

How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

by Rebecca Ann Parker, Rebecca Ann Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008  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....
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