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From the pages of Fellowship magazine, this volume highlights the
writings of some of the preeminent peacemakers of our century.
These seventy original and classic essays offer a comprehensive
reader in nonviolence while also chronicling the struggle for peace
and justice in the twentieth century. For students, activists, and
all who share an interest in building a more just and peaceful
world.
Walter Wink examines the prospects for emerg ing democracies as
they make the transition from dictatorshi p to free state. His
concern is to find ways of reconciling the deep divisions caused by
dictatorship without breeding f urther injustice. '
This volume examines the limits Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
have set for the use of coercive violence. It probes the agreements
and disagreements of these major religious traditions on pacifism
(the abjurance of all force) and quietism (the avoidance of force
unless certain stringent conditions are met). The distinguished
contributors examine the foundations for nonviolence in each
religion, criticize the positions each religion has taken, address
the inherent challenges nonviolence poses, and evaluate the
difficulty of practicing nonviolence in a secular society. The
concluding essay defines the common ground, isolates the points of
conflict, and suggests avenues of further inquiry. The most
important contribution this volume makes is to demonstrate that no
Western religious tradition provides a basis for the glorification
of violence. Rather, each accepts warfare as a regretted necessity
and sets strict limits on the use of force. This work offers new
insights for those interested in the ethics of warfare, peace
studies, religious traditions, and international affairs.
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.
'In his remarkable trilogy on the principalities and powers, Walter
Wink has biblically verified what more and more of us have come to
realize intuitively: namely, that underneath and within the social,
economic, and political crisis we face, there are profoundly
spiritual realities which must be confronted.' -Jim Wallis,
Sojourners
More than ever, Walter Wink believes, the Christian tradition of
nonviolence is needed as an alternative to the dominant and
death-dealing "powers" of our consumerist culture and fractured
world. In this small book Wink offers a precis of his whole
thinking about this issue, including the relation of Jesus and his
message to politics and nonviolence, the history of nonviolent
efforts, and how nonviolence can win the day when others don't
hesitate to resort to violence or terror to achieve their aims.
Walter Wink's writing has been described as brilliant, provocative,
passionate, and innovative. His skills in critical scholarship were
matched by an engaging and honest style that make his work a must
read for twenty-first century theologians and all who seek deeper
understanding at the intersection of Bible, theology, social
ethics, and more.
Historical biblical criticism is bankrupt. That startling
affirmation began The Bible in Human Transformation when it first
appeared in 1975. Wink asserts that despite the valuable
contributions of the historical-critical method, we have reached
the point where this method is incapable of allowing Scripture to
evoke personal and social transformation today. More than thirty
years later, Wink now looks back in a new preface over the more and
less humanizing developments in New Testament studies of the last
few decades and renews his call for a transforming approach to
biblical interpretation.
A thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination The
epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels
has been a highly debated topic. Wink uses this phrase to explore
not only early Christology but the anthropology articulated in the
Gospels. Jesus apparently avoided designations such as Messiah, Son
of God, or God, though these titles were given by his disciples
after his death and resurrection. But Jesus is repeatedly depicted
as using the obscure expression "the Human Being" as virtually his
only form of self- reference. Wink explores how Jesus'
self-referential phrase came to be universalized as the "Human
Being" or "Truly Human One." The Human Being is a catalytic agent
for transformation, providing the form and lure and hunger to
become who we were meant to be, or more properly perhaps, to become
who we truly are.
Final volume in Wink's Powers trilogy. Expanding upon his
hypothesis that the "principalities and powers" of the New
Testament are the social systems that sustain life and maintain
order, Wink says that subversion of the powers resulted in the
Domination System--male supremacy, economic oppression, class
distinction, and racism--which Jesus intended to replace.
'The pages of this book represent the quest of a man intent on
discerning the nature of structural evil in light of the biblical
evidence. His experience of living for a time in Latin American and
witnessing extensive social and political oppression appears to
have moved him profoundly. The end result is a book that is a model
of the attempt to integrate scholarship with faith.'--Clinton E.
Arnold, Catalyst
Issues surrounding homosexuality threaten to divide the Christian
churches and the people within them. This unique resource presents
short pieces from some of the nation's most prominent church
leaders - Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical - who
address the fundamental moral imperatives about homosexuality.
Together they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the
Spirit, to tolerance, and to Gospel values. Through personal
testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they provide
much-needed clarity on the biblical witness and biblical authority,
the nature or character of homosexuality and sexual orientation,
and many related topics. Contributors include Elise Boulding,
Ignacio Castuera, John B. Cobb Jr., William Sloane Coffin, Peggy
Campolo, Bishop Paul Egertson, James A. Forbes Jr., Maria Harris,
Barbara Kelsey, Morton Kelsey, Gabriel Moran, David G. Myers,
Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Ken Sehested, Carole Shields, Donald W.
Shriver Jr., M. Mahan Siler Jr., Lewis B. Smedes, and Walter Wink.
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