Engaging the Powers

Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

By: Walter Wink

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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.

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