Naming the Powers : The Language of Power in the New Testament de Walter Wink - 2003

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Fortress Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. The reader of this work will search in vain for a definition of power. It is one of those words that everyone understands perfectly well until asked to define it. Our use of the term 'power' is laden with assumptions drawn from the contemporary materialistic worldview. Whereas the ancients always understood power as the confluence of both spiritual and material factors, we tend to see it as primarily material. We do not think in terms of spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods as the effective agents of powerful effects in the world. Thus a gulf has been fixed between us and the biblical writers. We use the same words but project them into a wholly different world of meanings. What they meant by power and what we mean are incommensurate. If our goal is to understand the New Testament's conception of the Powers, we cannot do so simply by applying our own modern sociological categories of power. We must instead attend carefully and try to grasp what the people of that… Leer más

Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. the edges of the paperback binding of slightly ruffled, internally, clean and free of annotation. With appendices and indexes, this volume, which is more technical than the 2 to follow, attempts to comprehend the language of power in the new Testament. Part 1 is a thoroughgoing examination of the use of the terms for power in all the relevant literature of the period and in the new testament. Part 2 applies the guidelines developed in part one to the more problematic passages dealing with the principalities and powers – what I have called "disputed passages". Part 3 attempts a consistent interpretation of the meaning of the Biblical language of power to human existence, then and now. – Pages X & XI Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 181 pages. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to… Leer más

Fortress Press. Good. 1988. Soft Cover. 080061786X (A404) .