Naming the Powers
Naming the Powers The reader of this work will search in vain for a definition of power. Our use of the term 'power' is laden with assumptions drawn from the contemporary materialistic worldview. It…
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Naming the Powers
The reader of this work will search in vain for a definition of power. Our use of the term 'power' is laden with assumptions drawn from the contemporary materialistic worldview. It is one of those words that everyone understands perfectly well until asked to define it.
We do not think in terms of spirits, ghosts, demons, or gods as the effective agents of powerful effects in the world. Whereas the ancients always understood power as the confluence of both spiritual and material factors, we tend to see it as primarily material. Thus a gulf has been fixed between us and the biblical writers.
We use the same words but project them into a wholly different world of meanings. What they meant by power and what we mean are incommensurate. If our goal is to understand the New Testament's conception of the Powers, we cannot do so simply by applying our own modern sociological categories of
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