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Doubting and disenchanted Christians need to recover a way of speaking about angels and demons because the language of discerning the spirits helps us shift focus away from concrete examples of oppression to attend to the Zeitgeist that produces these injustices.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
It is in this work that he denounces the infamous four Idols, which have kept man from gaining power over nature: Idols of the Tribe, which lead us to believe our perceptions are the same as nature’s facts; Idols of the Cave, which lead us to mistaken ideas derived from heredity and environment; Idols of the Market-place, which lead us to be deluded by words; and Idols of the Theater, which lead us to the misleading dogmas of the philosophers.
The Christus Victor theology fell out of favor, not because of intrinsic inadequacies, but because it was subversive to the church’s role as state religion.
The Powers That Be
Walter Wink
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