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What Is The Warfare Worldview?
Category: Essays
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, Essay, Evil, Free Will, Love, Providence, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…In the warfare worldview, this is understood to be the result of the evil intentions and activity of human and angelic agents. As is the case with the blueprint worldview, the warfare worldview is not without difficulties. Foremost among these is the question of how this view can be reconciled…
What is the Warfare Worldview?
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…“warfare worldview.” The world is caught up in a spiritual war between God and Satan. Unlike the blueprint worldview, the warfare worldview does not assume that there is a specific divine reason for what Satan and other evil agents do. To the contrary, God fights these opponents precisely because their…
Warfare Worldview: A Basic Definition
Category: General
Tags: Blueprint Worldview, Evil, Open Theism, Satan, Theodicy, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…particular evil occurred in the first place. In the warfare worldview, this is understood to be the result of the evil intentions and activity of human and angelic agents. As is the case with the blueprint worldview, the warfare worldview is not without difficulties. Foremost among these is the question…
Plutarch’s Insightful Warfare Worldview
Category: General
…stands in tension with his warfare worldview. In this post I’ll briefly flesh out Plutarch’s warfare worldview, and in a later post I’ll flesh out his non-sequential and changeless view of God. Plutarch repeatedly insists that God (and other lesser good gods aligned with him) cannot be the source of…
God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…I’d consider fleshing out my thesis in a book. I jumped at the opportunity. Initially I planned on writing a book that would 1) lay out the biblical view of spiritual warfare; 2) provide a philosophical defense of the warfare worldview, and; 3) trace how this worldview was developed in…
V Theology
…Warfare Worldview See also: I Biblical Interpretation: Spiritual Warfare/Cosmic Conflict in Scripture IV Church History: Spiritual Warfare in the Early Church VI Apologetics: The Reality of Satan/Angels /Demons VI Apologetics: The Problem of Evil VII Christian Living: Spiritual Warfare C. Arnold, Powers of Darkness (InterVarsity, 1992) 1 D.G. Barnhouse,…
Spiritual Warfare and the “Eternal Now”
Category: General
In a previous post I discussed Plutarch’s warfare worldview – a view, I argue, that is quite insightful and remarkably consistent with the quasi-dualistic theology of the New Testament. What’s interesting, however, is that Plutarch fuses this warfare perspective with a thoroughly platonic ontology. In this platonic framework, reality is…
What is the warfare worldview?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Q&A, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…and resurrection of Christ (Col. 2:13–14), but the demise of evil has not yet been fully realized. Christians are called to wage spiritual warfare (Eph. 6:10–17) against evil through prayer, evangelism, and social action. While most of the apostolic fathers held views that were similar to the warfare worldview, the…
Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy
Category: General
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…I began calling “the warfare worldview”; and 3) trace how this worldview was developed in the early church and how it was eventually lost when the Augustinian “blueprint worldview” became dominant. I thought the book would run two to three hundred pages. I was very mistaken. The three objectives became…
4 Reasons to Wake Up to the Warfare Worldview
Category: General
Tags: Culture, Demons, Evil, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview, Western Assumptions
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…things as angels and demons. Outside of the fact that the Bible makes it clear that there is a real spiritual war transpiring, there are four reasons why we are poised to wake up to the reality of the warfare worldview: The Move Beyond Materialistic Assumptions. The dominance of…
VII Christian Living
…also: I Biblical Interpretation: Spiritual Warfare/Cosmic Conflict in Scripture IV Church History: Spiritual Warfare in the Early Church V Theology: Warfare Worldview VII Apologetics: The Reality of Satan/Angels /Demons VII Apologetics: The Problem of Evil N. T. Anderson, The Bondage Breaker (Harvest House, 1990) 1 C.Arnold, 3 Crucial Questions…
VI Apologetics
…evidence for the reality of Satan, angels and demons/ See also: I Biblical Interpretation: Spiritual Warfare/Cosmic Conflict in Scripture IV Church History: Spiritual Warfare in the Early Church V Theology: Warfare Worldview VI Apologetics: The Problem of Evil VII Christian Living: Spiritual Warfare Fr. G.Amorth, An Exorcist Tells…
VIII Philosophy
…History of Ideas, 4 Vols. (Scribner’s Sons, 1973) 3 Christian Worldview See also: V Theology: The Nature of Theology/ Methodology V Theology: The Nature of Revelation/ Biblical Authority VIII Philosophy: Epistemology/Post-Modernism W. L. Craig, J. P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview (IVP Academic, 2003) 2 A. F….
Spiritual Warfare: What is it?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Humility, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Love, Myth of a Christian Religion, Satan, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…variety of reasons this belief in spiritual warfare intensified significantly in the two centuries leading up to Christ. This intensified understanding of evil and this new view of history is commonly referred to as the “apocalyptic” worldview. The authority ascribed to Satan in the New Testament, the frequent depictions of…
I Bible Interpretation
…Inter-Cultural Relationships (T & T Clark, 2004) 3 N.T. Wright, The Climax of the Covenant (Fortress, 1991) 2 Cosmic Conflict/ Spiritual Warfare in Scripture See also IV Church History: Spiritual Warfare in the Early Church V Theology: Warfare Worldview VI Apologetics: The Reality of Satan/Angels /Demons VII Christian Living: Spiritual…
So Much Evil. Why?
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Free Will, Open Theism, Warfare Worldview
…worldview God must work with, and battle against, other created beings. While none of these beings can ever match God’s own power, each has some degree of genuine influence within the cosmos. In other words, a warfare worldview is inherently pluralistic. There is no single, all-determinative divine will that coercively…
The Paradox of Plutarch and Early Christian Theology
Category: General
…theology (and that are largely still with us today). On the one hand, Plutarch clearly affirms free will and has the most developed “warfare worldview” of any thinker in the Platonic tradition. Plutarch holds that the world is caught in the crossfire of conflicting forces of good and evil and…
The Warfare Worldview
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Greg Boyd, ReKnew, Roberta Winter Institute, Science, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
The Warfare Worldview from Roberta Winter Institute on Vimeo. Here’s a video presentation that Greg did at the Roberta Winter Institute regarding the Warfare Worldview. Enjoy!…
Why have you consistently stressed the need for the Western Church to learn from the African Church?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Church, Diversity, Q&A
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues, The Church
…Humans, and indeed the entire earth, are their battlefield. In these “warfare worldviews,” much of the suffering in the world is understood to be the result nefarious spirit agents. In my book, God at War, I argue that this worldview is closer to the biblical worldview than the western Christian…
IV Church History
…Spiritual Warfare/Cosmic Conflict in Scripture V Theology: Warfare Worldview VI Apologetics: The Reality of Satan/Angels /Demons VII Christian Living: Spiritual Warfare G. Bonner, The Warfare of Christ (Faith, 1962) 2 G. Boyd, Satan and the Problem of Evil (InterVarsity, 2001) 3 E. Ferguson, Demonology of the Early Christian World…