Engaging the Powers : 25th Anniversary Edition /

In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers. He asks the question, "How can we oppose evil without cre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wink, Walter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edición:25th anniversary edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible. > New Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Nonviolence > Biblical teaching.
Violence > Biblical teaching.
Good and evil > Biblical teaching.
Powers (Christian theology) > Biblical teaching.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • part I. The domination system
  • 1. The myth of the domination system
  • 2. The origin of the domination system
  • 3. Naming the domination system
  • 4. The nature of the domination system
  • 5. Unmasking the domination system
  • part II. God's new charter of reality
  • 6. God's domination-free order : Jesus and God's reign
  • 7. Breaking the spiral of violence : the power of the cross
  • 8. To wash off the not human : becoming expendable
  • part III. Engaging the powers nonviolently
  • 9. Jesus' third way : nonviolent engagement
  • 10. On not becoming what we hate
  • 11. Beyond just war and pacifism
  • 12. But what if...?
  • 13. Re-visioning history : nonviolence past, present, future
  • part IV. The powers and the life of the Spirit
  • 14. The acid test : loving enemies
  • 15. Monitoring our inner violence
  • 16. Prayer and the powers
  • 17. Celebrating the victory of God.

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