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A Theology Of The Dark Side: Putting The Power Of Evil In Its Place
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"This book offers ways of theologizing intelligently about evil while at the same time putting it in its place. 'The underlying issues about the nature of evil ... are perrenial and those who are believers in the God of Jesus Christ need to be well armed both intellectually and spiritually to address them ... this book is about how we are to think about evil, and by derivation how we are not to think.' Nigel Wright tries to steer a course between overestimating and underestimating the power of evil in its many manifestations. What is evil? How ought we to think of it? How should we not think of it? How should we engage it? A Theology of the Dark Side stresses that the church militant of Jesus Christ must strive to combat evil on earth and so hasten the coming of the kingdom of God and the defeat ofthe power of darkness. Detailed discussions of the nature of evil and the forms it takes are followed by careful and thorough examinations of the activity of evil and suggestions as to how, through the crucified, risen and exalted Christ, the war against the power of the dark side may finally be won. A revising and updating of The Fair Face of Evil: Putting the Power of Darkness in its Place, A Theology of the Dark Side is a thorough scholarly exploration and analysis of the power of darkness that will stimulate the corporate thinking of the church of God as regards to evil."
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Pages 208
Dimensions: Length: 7.6" Width: 5.1" Height: 0.6"
Weight: 0.45 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 1, 2003
Publisher AUTHENTIC UK
ISBN 184227189X
EAN 9781842271896
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 | Brilliant but Flawed Aug 6, 2008 |
I have looked for a long time for a work on Satan, demons and supernatural evil that had an appropriate balance between two extreme views. One is the traditional view that Satan and demons are fallen angels and that angels are supernatural, non-human spirit beings. A typical example would be Wayne Grudem's "Systematic Theology." However, modern readers will ask: what is meant by supernatural spirit beings? How are we to understand this as Bultmann puts it "in the age of electric lights"? The other side would be mainline Protestant, academically respectable writers, who generally ignore the topic. For example, Wolfhart Pannenberg's "Systematic Theology" avoids more than a single mention of Satan in its 3 volumes. He also explains angels as the forces of nature, such as electro-magnetism. This is typical of Bultmann's de-mythologizing program: the many references to Satan and demons in the New Testament should not be understood to refer to any such thing. Wright takes seriously the existence of supernatural evil, Satan, and demons but realizes the traditional doctrines are simply not going to be credible to a modern audience.
There is quite a lot to be gotten out of this book until you reach the chapter "The Lordless Powers." Unfortunately, this is just another re-hash of Walter Wink's "powers" concept, which appears indistinguishable from the neo-Marxist idea of "the Man" or "the System." Of course, the solution presented to this problem is for Christians to stop embracing the "status quo" and to help advance socialism. Has Wright read much history of the past few hundred years? What status quo? In particular, the 20th century has been a succession of one failed utopian promise after another. With his demonization of conservative straw men like Oliver North, it appears Wright is more motivated by conventional liberal politics than by any real insight into who these "powers" might be. What would be a really dangerous idea is if Wright and others of his ilk (Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Greg Boyd, or Ron Sider, for example) suggested that the real "powers" to be resisted were the intellectual and cultural forces driving us to a neo-pagan Gnosticism indistinguishable from Huxley's "Brave New World." I know what political party the Huxley-ites are in and its not the conservative one.
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