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Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination

by Walter Wink · 1992

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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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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 424 pages

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