Wink,12 and Amos Yong.13 Sometimes, horrific natural disasters, what Boyd, in an allusion to a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, calls “nature, red in tooth and claw,” as well as unprecedented human disasters, mainly in more recent times in the form of nuclear and biological warfare, turn minds toward the possibility of personal evil destructive forces and thus to giving more credence and attention to the biblical language of principalities and powers. The notable books by Walter Wink,14 whose own work