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- Engaging the Powers: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
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 creating new evils and being made evil ourselves?"Winner of the Pax Christi Award, the Academy of Parish Clergy Book of the Year, and the Midwest Book Achievement Award for Best Religious Book.
Table of Contents
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- Abbreviations and Symbols
- pp. xvii-xx
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part I: The Domination System
- pp. 11-12
- 1. The Myth of the Domination System
- pp. 13-32
- 3. Naming the Domination System
- pp. 53-68
- 5. Unmasking the Domination System
- pp. 93-112
- Part II: God’s New Charter of Reality
- pp. 113-116
- Part III: Engaging the Powers Nonviolently
- pp. 179-184
- 9. Jesus’ Third Way: Nonviolent Engagement
- pp. 185-206
- 10. On Not Becoming What We Hate
- pp. 207-222
- 11. Beyond Just War and Pacifism
- pp. 223-246
- 12. But What If . . . ?
- pp. 247-258
- 14. The Acid Test: Loving Enemies
- pp. 279-294
- 15. Monitoring Our Inner Violence
- pp. 295-314
- 16. Prayer and the Powers
- pp. 315-338
- 17. Celebrating the Victory of God
- pp. 339-346
- Index of Passages
- pp. 447-466
- Index of Names
- pp. 467-478
- Index of Subjects
- pp. 479-492
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 493-494
- About the Author
- pp. 495-496
Additional Information
ISBN
9781506438542
Related ISBN(s)
9781506438160
MARC Record
OCLC
1013854700
Pages
520
Launched on MUSE
2017-12-06
Language
English
Open Access
No