Walter Wink: Collected Readings

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Walter WINK HENRY FRENCH, EDITOR Collected Readings Walter Wink’s writing has been described as brilliant, provocative, passionate, and innovative. His skills in critical scholarship are matched by an engaging and honest style that make his work a must read for twenty-first-century theologians and all who seek deeper understanding at the intersection of Bible, theology, social ethics, and more. This volume of collected readings, edited by Henry French, draws from Wink’s essential theological works, focusing on Wink’s interminable quest to integrate theology with experience—rejecting the objectivism that separates “theory from practice, mind from body, reason from emotion, knowledge from experience.” From the Foreword, written by Marcus Borg “Walter’s passion for the transforming power of the Bible flowed into his life. He lived much of what he wrote about. He never succumbed to the scholarly temptation to become a curator of a museum of ancient texts. More than most of his academic colleagues in the study of Christian origins, including me, he lived his life as a Christian intellectual who moved from thought to praxis.” Walter Wink was professor of biblical interpretation emeritus at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. Previously, he was a parish minister and taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1989–90 he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. He is author of numerous books, including The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man (Fortress Press, 2001) and the award-winning Fortress Press trilogy: Naming the Powers (1982), Unmasking the Powers (1986), Engaging the Powers (1992), and When the Powers Fall (1998). He was also the editor of Homosexuality and Christian Faith (Fortress Press, 1999). Henry French is a retired Lutheran professor and pastor now living, researching, and writing in central Minnesota. He has taught on the faculties of the Japan Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tokyo and Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is the author of five books in the area of spirituality. An essential collection of Walter Wink’s groundbreaking work— Religion / Theology Collected Readings Walter Wink ...