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Preface | |
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Abbreviations and Symbols | |
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Introduction | |
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The Domination System | |
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The Myth of the Domination System | |
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The Myth of Redemptive Violence | |
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The Myth of Redemptive Violence in Popular Culture Today | |
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Redemptive Violence and the National Security State | |
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The Origin of the Domination System | |
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Are Human Beings Violent by Nature? | |
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A Time before the Domination System? | |
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The Rise of the Domination System | |
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The Emergent Biblical Alternative | |
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The Future of God's Reign | |
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Naming the Domination System | |
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Kosmos: The Domination System | |
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Aion: The Domination Epoch | |
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Sarx: Dominated Existence | |
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The Nature of the Domination System | |
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The Powers Are Good | |
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The Powers Are Fallen | |
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The Powers Will Be Redeemed | |
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Unmasking the Domination System | |
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The Delusional Apparatus according to Revelation 12-13 | |
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The Manufacture of Idolatry according to Revelation 13 | |
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The Delusional Assumptions | |
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Liberation from the Delusional System | |
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God's New Charter of Reality | |
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God's Domination-Free Order: Jesus and God's Reign | |
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Domination | |
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Equality | |
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Purity and Holiness | |
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Racism/Ethnocentrism | |
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Family | |
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Law | |
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Sacrifice | |
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Nonviolence | |
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Women and Children | |
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Healing and Exorcism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Breaking the Spiral of Violence: The Power of the Cross | |
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The Victory of the Cross | |
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Breaking the Spiral of Violence: Girard's Hypothesis | |
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Evaluating Girard's Hypothesis | |
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To Wash Off the Not Human: Becoming Expendable | |
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Dying to the Powers | |
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The Church and the Powers | |
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Engaging the Powers Nonviolently | |
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Jesus' Third Way: Nonviolent Engagement | |
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Jesus on Nonviolent Engagement | |
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The Thesis Statement: Do Not Mirror Evil | |
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Making Jesus' Teaching Operational | |
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On Not Becoming What We Hate | |
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We Become What We Hate | |
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Violent Mimesis | |
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The Contagion of Evil | |
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Beyond Just War and Pacifism | |
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Early Christian Nonviolence | |
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Just War Theory | |
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The Church's Vocation for Nonviolence | |
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A Role for "Violence-Reduction Criteria" | |
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Beyond Just War and Pacifism | |
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But What If...? | |
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Rehearsing Nonviolence | |
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Forte versus Violence? | |
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Re-visioning History: Nonviolence Past, Present, Future | |
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The Past and Present of Nonviolence | |
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The Future of Nonviolence | |
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The Powers and the Life of the Spirit | |
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The Acid Test: Loving Enemies | |
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God Is All-Inclusive | |
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Against Perfectionism | |
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The Enemy's Gift | |
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Love Transforms | |
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Monitoring Our Inner Violence | |
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The Detainee Within | |
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Something Wants Transformation | |
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Something Wants Nonviolence | |
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The Creative Role of Aggression | |
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Prayer and the Powers | |
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History Belongs to the Intercessors | |
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God Is the Intercessor | |
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Waging Spiritual Warfare with the Powers | |
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Prayer and the Problem of Evil | |
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Conclusion | |
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Celebrating the Victory of God | |
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Notes | |
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Index of Passages | |
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Index of Names | |
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Index of Subjects | |
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Acknowledgments | |