Power and the Powers - by Walter Brueggemann & Conrad L Kanagy (Paperback)

About the Book

In Power and the Powers Walter Brueggemann looks to the sovereignty of the one true God and does not become distracted by the world's many powers. The fifteen chapters explore the theological tension between the Power and the powers--and what it means to stand with the one true God, to side with the powerless, against the powers of oppression.

Book Synopsis

Power and the Powers is divided into three parts. Part 1 addresses the many powers that oppress; part 2, the powers that stand with the oppressed against the oppressors; and part 3, God as the one Power who overcomes all others. This is an arbitrary business, to say the least, for Walter Brueggemann has never really been concerned about the lowercase-p powers. Yes, all the chapters address current events and the underlying spiritual powers at work within them. But the focus here, as in all of Brueggemann's work, is the one Power before whom every knee will bow and every tongue confess.