Barbara Zelter here, from Colgate Rochester Crozer Div. School in Rochester, NY, a late-age MA Theology student now again in my childhood neighborhood, taking a break from decades of community organizing in NC. I don't know you all, but like this outcropping of discussion from the circle of those Ched invited to PA. Thank you for your recommendations for reading and thought.
Let me just name one book that was not part of any course here but new to me and really fine, eye-opening as it described the art of the church's first 600 years (pre-Charlemagne) depicting primarily the tree of life and Edenic rivers of plenty, not the suffering cross. Well-written and illuminating, it's a reconstruction of the theology of bounty as expressed in the early church:
Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Beacon Press, Boston, 2008.
BZ
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Barbara,
I had the pleasure of hearing Rita and Rebecca read from and talk about the book here in Seattle last year (they are both from the Pac. NW). It is indeed an excellent work, and beautifully written as well. Thanks for introducing yourself to those of us who don't know you and making this fine recommendation.
Wes
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