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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 | |