Engaging the Powers: by Walter Wink

Author: Walter Wink

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Engaging the Powers

Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

One of the most pressing questions facing the world today is, How can we oppose evil without creating new evils and being made evil ourselves?

It is my conviction that any attempt to face the problem of evil in society from a New Testament perspective must be bound up with an understanding of what the Bible calls the "Principalities and Powers". I am also convinced that no social ethic can be constructed on New Testament grounds without recognition of the role of these Powers in sustaining and subverting human life.

My thesis is that what people in the world of the Bible experience and called "Principalities and Powers" was in fact real. They were discerning the actual spirituality at the center of the political, economic, and cultural institutions of their day. The spiritual aspect of the Powers is not simply a "personification" of institutional qualities that would exist whether they were personified or not. On the contrary, the spirituality of an institution exists as a real aspect of the institution even when it is not perceived as such. Institutions have an actual spiritual ethos, and we neglect this aspect of institutional life to our peril.
-- from the Introduction

About the Author
Walter Wink is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City.

Series: Powers
Physical Info: 1.05" H x 8.96" L x 5.92" W (1.52 lbs) 424 pages
Carton Quantity: 24
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
US SRP: $ 25.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: January 1992

Final volume in Wink's Powers trilogy. Expanding upon his hypothesis that the "principalities and powers" of the New Testament are the social systems that sustain life and maintain order, Wink says that subversion of the powers resulted in the Domination System--male supremacy, economic oppression, class distinction, and racism--which Jesus intended to replace.

Additional Information
CPC Categories:
- Biblical Studies | General Studies | General
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History - General
- Religion | Christian Theology | Angelology & Demonology
- Religion | Theology
LC Subjects:
- Biblical teaching - Good and evil
- Nonviolence - Powers (Christian theology)
- Violence
Themes:
Theometrics | Academic
Religious Orientation | Christian

Engaging the Powers: by Walter Wink Author: Walter Wink
	Item#	Binding	isbn - 10	Price
	9780800626464	Paperback	080062646X	16.95
Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination: One of the most pressing questions facing the world today is, How can we oppose evil without creating new evils and being made evil ourselves?

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