Do you want your thinking about angels and demons to be blown out of the water? Read “The Powers Trilogy” by Walter Wink.
And then read them again.
If Wink is right, then pretty much everything we think we know about Satan, angels, and demons is completely wrong, everything we think we know about spiritual warfare is wrong, everything we think we know about the separation of church and state is wrong, and everything we think we know about sin and temptation is wrong.
I am going to do a three-part review, one for each book in the Trilogy. This review is on the first volume in the series: Naming the Powers.
Of the three books, this one is both the hardest to read and the most important. It is hard to read because it contains a lot of the Scriptural backgrounds and exegetical research for what is written about in the other two books. Some readers might find such content dry and difficult to wade through. However, since it deals with some of the primary Scriptures about Satan, angels, and demons, this book is the foundation for the other two. If you do not read this book, you may not understand where Wink is coming from in the other two.
So the book is hard to read, but is necessary if you fully want to grasp the argument that Wink makes.
