Harvey, you might find Phil Ziegler's recent Warfield lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary interesting. His topic - the Devil. He is dragging the Western Reformed establishment into proximity with what you describe. He is providing a solid exegetical and theological basis to help clarify what is actually going on when we speak of the devil. They are brilliant and have great relevance to how Reformed expressions of faith in places like Malawi address the realities you speak about.
Yep - Your writing makes a lot of sense. Also, this reasoning is part of the reason I do 2 things each week if possible. First, if a struggling rural church in America needs a preacher I'm there on a Sunday. If Christianity loses these markers in a community they lose to spiritual powers. Second, I encourage diaspora people to look for the spirits behind the oppressive systems of the West and engage the systems with appropriate spirituality. I sense that we don't bring enough African wisdom to the problems of immigrants in the west
Harvey, you might find Phil Ziegler's recent Warfield lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary interesting. His topic - the Devil. He is dragging the Western Reformed establishment into proximity with what you describe. He is providing a solid exegetical and theological basis to help clarify what is actually going on when we speak of the devil. They are brilliant and have great relevance to how Reformed expressions of faith in places like Malawi address the realities you speak about.
Yep - Your writing makes a lot of sense. Also, this reasoning is part of the reason I do 2 things each week if possible. First, if a struggling rural church in America needs a preacher I'm there on a Sunday. If Christianity loses these markers in a community they lose to spiritual powers. Second, I encourage diaspora people to look for the spirits behind the oppressive systems of the West and engage the systems with appropriate spirituality. I sense that we don't bring enough African wisdom to the problems of immigrants in the west