Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

The Gladys Crane Lecture Series and the
Asian and Asian-American Ministries Center

welcomes Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock

Rev. Dr. Brock is the founder and director of Faith Voices for the Common Good and a Visiting Scholar at the Starr King School for Ministry, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. She is the author and co-author of a number of award-winning books, including Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power and Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire.

“Orient”-alism and the Christian Search for Paradise in the East
Thursday, March 17, 1:15 p.m.
Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful

This lecture will explore a shift in thinking surrounding understandings of paradise. Early Christian communities viewed baptism as an entrance into paradise on earth and the church as the paradise in this world. This was later transformed from the 9th to 12th centuries into the Western European mythic search for paradise lost in the exotic east.

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Sponsors

• Fellowship of Asian Americans, Northern Illinois Conference of The United Methodist Church
• Gladys Crane Endowed Lecture Series
• The Asian and Asian-American Ministries Center
• WomenIMAGES