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Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination, Vol. 3 » (New Edition)

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Authors: Walter Wink
ISBN-13: 9780800626464, ISBN-10: 080062646X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Date Published: January 1992
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Walter Wink

Book Synopsis

In this magnificent finale to his trilogy, Walter Wink engages the Powers with brilliant exegesis and a profoundly creative nonviolence, revealing the way to the Powers' and our own transformation.--James W. Douglass, Ground Zero Community

	Preface
	Abbreviations and Symbols
	Introduction	3
Pt. 1	The Domination System
1	The Myth of the Domination System	13
	The Myth of Redemptive Violence
	The Myth of Redemptive Violence in Popular Culture Today
	Redemptive Violence and the National Security State
2	The Origin of the Domination System	33
	Are Human Beings Violent by Nature?
	A Time before the Domination System?
	The Rise of the Domination System
	The Emergent Biblical Alternative
	The Future of God's Reign
3	Naming the Domination System	51
	Kosmos: The Domination System
	Aion: The Domination Epoch
	Sarx: Dominated Existence
4	The Nature of the Domination System	65
	The Powers Are Good
	The Powers Are Fallen
	The Powers Will Be Redeemed
5	Unmasking the Domination System	87
	The Delusional Apparatus according to Revelation 12-13
	The Manufacture of Idolatry according to Revelation 13
	The Delusional Assumptions
	Liberation from the Delusional System
Pt. 2	God's New Charter of Reality
6	God's Domination-Free Order: Jesus and God's Reign	109
	Domination
	Equality
	Purity and Holiness
	Racism/Ethnocentrism
	Family
	Law
	Sacrifice
	Nonviolence
	Women and Children
	Healing and Exorcism
	Conclusion
7	Breaking the Spiral of Violence: The Power of the Cross	139
	The Victory of the Cross
	Breaking the Spiral of Violence: Girard's Hypothesis
	Evaluating Girard's Hypothesis
8	To Wash Off the Not Human: Becoming Expendable	157
	Dying to the Powers
	The Church and the Powers
Pt. 3	Engaging the Powers Nonviolently
9	Jesus' Third Way: Nonviolent Engagement	175
	Jesus on Nonviolent Engagement
	The Thesis Statement: Do Not Mirror Evil
	Making Jesus' Teaching Operational
10	On Not Becoming What We Hate	195
	We Become What We Hate
	Violent Mimesis
	The Contagion of Evil
11	Beyond Just War and Pacifism	209
	Early Christian Nonviolence
	Just War Theory
	The Church's Vocation for Nonviolence
	A Role for "Violence-Reduction Criteria"
	Beyond Just War and Pacifism
12	But What If...?	231
	Rehearsing Nonviolence
	Forte versus Violence?
13	Re-visioning History: Nonviolence Past, Present, Future	243
	The Past and Present of Nonviolence
	The Future of Nonviolence
Pt. 4	The Powers and the Life of the Spirit
14	The Acid Test: Loving Enemies	263
	God Is All-Inclusive
	Against Perfectionism
	The Enemy's Gift
	Love Transforms
15	Monitoring Our Inner Violence	279
	The Detainee Within
	Something Wants Transformation
	Something Wants Nonviolence
	The Creative Role of Aggression
16	Prayer and the Powers	297
	History Belongs to the Intercessors
	God Is the Intercessor
	Waging Spiritual Warfare with the Powers
	Prayer and the Problem of Evil
	Conclusion
17	Celebrating the Victory of God	319
	Notes	325
	Index of Passages	403
	Index of Names	413
	Index of Subjects	419
	Acknowledgments	424