Enigmas and Powers

Enigmas and Powers is a celebration and engagement of the work of the noted author biblical scholar peace activist pastor speaker and workshop leader Walter Wink. Among Wink's numerous influential works are The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man The Bible in Human Transformation Homosexuality and Christian Faith Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way and The Powers trilogy (Naming the Powers Unmasking the Powers and Engaging the Powers). This is the only volume devoted to responses by Walter's colleagues and students to the entire range of his work and its vast impact across disciplines from biblical studies to peace studies from theology to psychology. You hold in your hands an unusual book. In it you will find essays letters speeches prayers toasts reminiscences arguments footnotes and open-ended conversation. You will find addressed--and by addressed I mean that the authors are variously talking to these persons/entities--God; the Spirit; Psyche; Walter Wink the person; Walter Wink the essay book theory method and/or argument(s); and finally and throughout you the reader. Most of all you will find I hope truth. Or at least meaningful productive and enticing approaches toward truth itself and toward the world in light of truth. --from the introduction