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Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God
Marva J. Dawn

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Format: Paperback, 176pp.
ISBN: 0802847706
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Pub. Date: March 2001

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As we embark on the new millennium, uncharted challenges await the church. This volume by one of today's most valued voices on modern church life offers a wealth of insight into the role of local churches in the twenty-first century.

Rooted in solid biblical research and extensive experience, Marva Dawn's newest book will help churches and their leaders avoid falling to the temptations of contemporary secular culture, including the popular "success" models of church management. Dawn offers groundbreaking scholarship—from the first significant critique of Walter Wink's work on "the powers" to a relevant new translation of 2 Corinthians 12:9—and challenges readers to rethink the goals and mission of the congregation, to develop practices that follow God's "hidden" way of weakness, and to expand their sense of what it means to be a faithful church.

Complete with discussion questions, this book provides the trustworthy theological and biblical foundations necessary for building strong churches—and keeping them strong—in today's world.


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Marva Dawn has become a powerful interpretive force of late, and this book advances significantly the weightiness of her contribution. In the wake of Jacques Ellul she asks hard questions about the church’s carelessly and eagerly embracing too much of the world’s notions of success and power. Into the middle of that gigantic misstep in the church, Dawn points yet again to the cross. She agilely moves back and forth between sharp theological critique and the concrete practice of the church. In her hands the disciplines of the early church in Acts become accessible and credible. She has the real church and real pastors in purview; and to us she speaks the reality of the gospel that has been so much distorted. Dawn is gifted in clearing the deck of old carelessnesses and inviting us to fresh and urgent, yet not complex, decisions. An important read!
—Walter Brueggemann

 

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Marva J. Dawn is a theologian, author, musician, and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Washington, and Teaching Fellow in Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. A scholar with four masters degrees and a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics and the Scriptures from the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Dawn has spoken for clergy and worship conferences and seminaries throughout North America and in Madagascar and in Eastern and Western Europe. She has written over a dozen books, most of which are published by Eerdmans.

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Acknowledgmentsix
1.The Principalities and Powers: Created, Fallen, and Then?1
2.The Tabernacling of God and a Theology of Weakness35
3.Churches Being, and Acting as, Fallen Powers73
4.What, Then, Shall the Church Be? Images of Weakness123
Questions for Reflection and Communal Conversation165
Works Cited168


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