Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries)Book of the Year, Reform Magazine (UK) "Wes Howard Brook has performed a great service with Empire Baptized. He explains how the transition in Christianity from Jesus's way of peace to the coercive ways of Christendom happened. An enormously enlightening account that helps us better understand our present dilemmas". Ted Grimsrud, author of The Good War That Wasn't And Why It Matters: The Moral Legacy of World War II; Senior Professor of Peace

elaborates a biblically rich and creation-sensitive theology of salvation rooted in the mercy of God and the divine solidarity with all created things

"The author strikes a good balance between political theology and analysis

is the author of Julie Billiart: Woman of Courage

a phenomenon revealed at each stage of its history by the missionary movement

Author of Once Upon a Time in Africa and Small Christian Communities Today

visiting professor

Ira Chernus is professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing

Based in Ireland

Miguel De La Torre opens up Christian ethics to the rich diversity found among those who are often excluded from academic and Eurocentric ethical considerations

and environmental sciences in a single vision for creating a sustainable community of the Earth

But this is not some dry theological tome