3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare (Three Crucial Questions)

by Clinton E. Arnold

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 1997

Overview

In 3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare, Clinton E. Arnold brings his exegetical skill and extensive knowledge of early Christianity to bear on the contemporary understanding of the spirit realm. Spiritual warfare is an integral part of the entire Christian experience, he explains. To think that a Christian could avoid spiritual warfare is like imagining that a gardener could avoid dealing with weeds. Our goal should be to gain an accurate and sober-minded understanding of spiritual warfare—not a view tainted by frightening superstitions and odd practices.

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Key Features

• Discusses the contemporary understanding of the spirit realm
• Provides biblical, theological, and church-historical responses to spiritual warfare
• Navigates through controversial and convoluted issues with Scripture

Contents

• What Is Spiritual Warfare?
• Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed?
• Are We Called to Engage Territorial Spirits?

Top Highlights

“The devil is an intelligent, powerful spirit-being that is thoroughly evil and is directly involved in perpetrating evil in the lives of individuals as well as on a much larger scale.” (Page 35)

“3. The Christian life is a lifelong struggle, not a one-time fix.” (Page 36)

“1. The concept of spiritual warfare reflects a primitive, prescientific worldview.” (Page 24)

“2. Demons and evil spirits are not very prominent in the Bible” (Page 24)

“6. Stressing spiritual warfare might lead to an unbalanced, experience-oriented theology centering on the spectacular” (Page 26)

Clinton Arnold uniquely combines the clear-headed thinking of a well-trained biblical and historical scholar with the heartbeat of an evangelist/minister. This work integrates readability, thorough biblicism, awareness of contemporary trends, and a refreshingly irenic spirit. It makes an important and significant contribution to the ongoing discussion on spiritual warfare. I place it on the top of my ‘must read’ list for any who are working through issues on this topic.

—A. Scott Moreau, professor, Wheaton College

Product Details

• Title: 3 Crucial Questions about Spiritual Warfare
• Author: Clinton E. Arnold
• Series: 3 Crucial Questions
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Spiritual warfare; Spiritual warfare › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781441249562, 9780801057847, 1441249567, 0801057841
• Resource ID: LLS:3CRQSSPWDF
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:14:55Z

About Clinton E. Arnold

Arnold, author of Powers of Darkness: Principalities and Powers in Paul's Letters, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and has done post-doctoral work at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany. He is currently associate professor of New Testament at the Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California.