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Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West is unavailable, but you can change that!

Among the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South, there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural “powers and principalities.” In this follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse bridges the enormous hermeneutical gap not only between the West and global Christianity but also...

real—even if ineffable. The unique characteristic of this reality has been attested in our day in the lives and testimonies of many, and it cannot be jettisoned or run over roughshod by the myriad modern interpretive tools. This is the kind of world described in Ephesians 6:10–20, a text that offers us a glimpse into the beliefs held by the earliest Christians about how to live in light of the reality of the world presented. In the midst of the difficulties
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