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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.
'Soul Repair' will help veterans, their families, members of their
communities, and chaplains to understand the impact of war on the
consciences of healthy people, to support the recovery of moral
conscience in society, and to restore veterans to civilian life.
When a society sends people off to war, it must accept
responsibility for returning them home to peace.
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My Red Couch (Paperback, Limited ed.)
Claire E. Bischoff, Rachel Gaffron; Foreword by Rita Nakashima Brock
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Asian American Christianity is one of the fastest-growing forms
of American Christianity, and it has already proven to be one of
the richest and most innovative movements in North American
religion. With a deep understanding of their roots in classic
Christianity as well as the diversity of Asian culture, these
theological voices have contributed some of the freshest and most
provocative work of recent decades. This volume brings together
women who are searching for authentic Christian dialogue in a world
of hybridity and changing context, and it represents one of the
most significant areas of growth and vitality in contemporary
Christianity.
Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral
identity through experiences of violence or trauma. This is the
first book in which scholars from different faith and academic
backgrounds consider the concept of moral injury not merely from a
pastoral or philosophical point of view but through critical
engagement with the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism and American Civil Religion. This collection of essays
explores the ambiguities of personal culpability among both
perpetrators and victims of violence and the suffering involved in
accepting personal agency in trauma. Contributors provide fresh and
compelling readings of texts from different faith traditions and
use their findings to reflect on real-life strategies for recovery
from violations of core moral beliefs and their consequences such
as shame, depression and addiction. With interpretations of the
sacred texts, contributors reflect on the concerns of the
morally-injured today and offer particular aspects of healing from
their communities as support, making this a groundbreaking
contribution to the study of moral injury and trauma.
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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