“In this magnificent finale to the trilogy, Walter Wink engages the Powers with brilliant exegesis and a profoundly creative nonviolence, revealing the way to the Powers' and our own transformations. Wink on the Powers is a classic resource for activist and scholar alike.”
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 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.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9781506438160
- eBook ISBN 9781506438542
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 520
- Publication Date October 15, 2017
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: 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. Unmaking the Domination System
Part 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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
Indexes
Endorsements
Wink on the Powers is a classic resource for activist and scholar alike.
James W. Douglass | Ground Zero Community
This book provides an intellectual, historical, and scriptural basis for the truth of Christian nonviolence.
“This book provides an intellectual, historical, and scriptural basis for the truth of Christian nonviolence. It will be an inspiration to many people and particularly helpful to those who have come into nonviolence intuitively or through a painful experience.” Mairead (Corrigan) Maguire Nobel Peace Laureate Northern Ireland
Mairead (Corrigan) Maguire | Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland