Spiritual Warfare: A Charismatic Baptist Theology of Participating in Divine Conflict

Continuous global news coverage reveals the relentless and pervasive ongoing nature of evil human action and its impact on persons, communities, and countries around the world. Whether it is world-wide human trafficking, global arms dealing, dehumanizing sweat shops, country-wide genocides, and so on, there is no shortage of evidence to suggest that there is much evil, conflict, suffering, pain, and loss on this planet. For the Christian there is the added challenge of trying to reconcile this marred world with a belief in an all-powerful and benevolent deity. Stories from the persecuted church reveal that the Christian church is not immune to these evil powers and principalities that are stoking up as much chaos here on earth as they possibly can. Spiritual Warfare: A Charismatic Baptist Theology of Participating in Divine Conflict attempts to try and help to make sense of the presence of the God in a world beset by evil and strife. Using the extensive theological corpus of British Baptist scholar Paul S. Fiddes, Spiritual Warfare articulates a doctrine of God which can remain intact when situated in the world as we know it and help make sense of evil that has not yet been eradicated by God.