Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries) Religion_ Christian Life and The Path of Wisdom:

and The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada

An African missiologist who has spent over ten years working both as a scholar and a practitioner in mission in Europe and North America

who describes himself as an Orthodox Christian and who lives in the Netherlands

-vis women and the Third World)

de Rhodes personally baptized thousands

Empire Baptized: How the Church Embraced What Jesus Rejected (Second-Fifth Centuries) Religion_ Christian Life and The Path of Wisdom: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