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Brock, Rita Nakashima was born on April 29, 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan. Arrived in United States, 1956, naturalized, 1958.
(One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008 During th...)
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. 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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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 to rethink her theology. And she would have to think hard about some of the choices she was making in her own life. When Rita Nakashima Brock was a young child growing up in Kansas, kids taunted her viciously, calling her names like "Chink" or "Jap." She learned to pretend that she did not feel the sting of scorn and the humiliation of contempt. The solitude and silence of her suffering-decreed by both her mother's Japanese culture and her father's Christian heritage-kept the wound alive. It was the gap between knowledge born of personal experience and traditional theology that led Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker to write this emotionally gripping and intellectually rich exploration of the doctrine of the atonement. Using an unusual combination of memoir and theology in the tradition of Augustine's Confessions, they lament the inadequacy of how Christian tradition has interpreted the violence that happened to Jesus. Ultimately, they argue, the idea that the death of Jesus on the cross saves us reveals a sanctioning of violence at the heart of Christianity. Brock and Parker draw on a wide array of intimate stories about family violence, the sexual abuse of children, racism, homophobia, and war to reveal how they came to understand the widespread damage being done by this theology. But the authors also undertake their own arduous and unexpected journeys to recover from violence and to assist others to do so. On these journeys they discover communities that begin to give them the strength to question the destructive ideas they have internalized, and the strength to seek out an alternative vision of Christianity, one based on healing and love. Proverbs of Ashes is both a condemnation of bad theology and a passionate search for what truly saves us.
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A cross-cultural analysis by two leading feminist theoloians of the sex industry, this book concentrates on the role of religion in shaping and sustaining related cultural values and the roles of militarism and business in the sexual exploitation of women, men, and children.
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Brock, Rita Nakashima was born on April 29, 1950 in Fukuoka, Japan. Arrived in United States, 1956, naturalized, 1958.
Bachelor, Chapman University, 1972. Master Religion, Claremont School Theology, 1974. Master of Arts, Claremont School Theology, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy, Claremont Graduate University, 1988.
Instructor Chapman College, Orange, California, 1977—1980, Scripps College, Claremont, 1980—1981, Valparaiso University, Indiana, 1983—1984. Director women's studies Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1984—1989. Assistant professor Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, 1989—1990.
Professor Hamline University, St. Paul, 1990—1997. Director Bunting Institute Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997—1999. Director Radcliffe Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute/Harvard University, 1999—2001.
Research associate Harvard Division School, 2001—2002. Independent scholar, 2002—2004. Director Faith Voices for the Common Good, since 2004.
Chair Planning Committee, Truth Commission Conscience in War, since 2008.
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Board trustees Starr King School, Berkeley, California, since 1991. Chair, board directors Division of Overseas Ministries, Indianapolis, 1996-1997, Common Global Ministries Board, Indianapolis, Cleveland, New York City, 1996-1997. Member board directors.
Religious Coalition Reproductive Choice, since 2006. Member American Academy Religion (chair committee 1994-1996, board directors 1994-1996, 1993-1995, chair program unit 1994-1998), ). Pacific Asian North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (faculty advisory since 1985), United States Group Ecumenical Association Third World Theologians.
Daughter of Clemente Morales Torres and Ayako (Nakashima) Brock. Stepfather Roy Grady Brock. Married Tommy Charles Douglas, April 15, 1980 (divorced May 1982).