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Confronting the Powers that Be
A Study Guide to accompany Walter Wink's The Powers That Be:
Theology for a New Millenium (Doubleday, 1998)
and Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Fortress Press, 1992)
"Why 99, you know we have to murder and kill and destroy in order to preserve everything that's good in the world." --Maxwell Smart to Agent 99
Index
About Vern Rossman
About Walter Wink
Preface
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Identifying the Powers
Session 3: On Redeeming the Powers
Session 4: The Domination System
Session 5: Jesus' Answer to Domination
Session 6: Breaking the Spiral of Violence
Session 7: Jesus' Third Way
Session 8: Practical Nonviolence
Session 9: Beyond Pacifism and Just War
Session 10: But What If . . . ?
Session 11: The Gift of the Enemy
Session 12: Prayer and the Powers
Session 13: Epilogue
Chart: The Future of God's Reign
Walter Wink on Homosexuality and the Bible