Enigmas and Powers is a celebration and engagement of the work of the noted author, biblical scholar, peace activist, pastor, speaker, and workshop leader, Walter Wink. Among Wink's numerous influential works are The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man, The Bible in Human Transformation, Homosexuality and Christian Faith, Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way, and The Powers trilogy (Naming the Powers, Unmasking the Powers, and Engaging the Powers). This is the only volume devoted to responses by Walter's colleagues and students to the entire range of his work and its vast impact across disciplines, from biblical studies to peace studies, from theology to psychology.
"You hold in your hands an unusual book. In it you will find essays, letters, speeches, prayers, toasts, reminiscences, arguments, footnotes, and open-ended conversation. You will find addressed—and by addressed, I mean that the authors are variously talking to these persons/entities—God; the Spirit; Psyche; Walter Wink the person; Walter Wink the essay, book, theory, method, and/or argument(s); and finally, and throughout, you, the reader. Most of all, you will find, I hope, truth. Or, at least, meaningful, productive, and enticing approaches toward truth itself, and toward the world in light of truth."
—from the introduction

Editor - D. Seiple
Editor - Frederick W. Weidmann

Contributors: Marcus Borg, Balfour Brickner, Tansy Chapman, Hal Childs, Bruce Chilton, Richard Deats, J. Harold Ellens, Robert (Bob) Evans, Ray Gingerich, Ted Grimsrud, Joseph C. Hough, Bill Wylie-Kellerman, Amy-Jill Levine, Alastair McIntosh, Jack Miles, Henry Mottu,Robert Raines, Sharon H. Ringe, Wayne G. Rollins, Bonnie Rosborough, D. Seiple, Frederick W. Weidmann, and Barbara Wheeler

Practices, Politics, and Performance by Dr. Michael G. Cartwright
European Pietism Reviewed by Frederick Herzog
Constructing a Relational Cosmology
The Little Church that Refused to Die by William W. Moore
Ambushed by Grace by Dr. Thomas W. Currie
The Will of God and the Cross by Jonathan H. Rainbow
Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World
"Education Has Nothing to Do with Theology" by Dr. Edward J. Newell
A Little Book of Christian Questions and Responses by Theodore Beza
Poverty in the Theology of John Calvin by Dr. Bonnie L. Pattison
Evangelicalism and Karl Barth by Phillip R. Thorne
My Father-In-Law by Max Zellweger-Barth
Coram Deo by Caryn D. Riswold
Orthodoxy and Difference by Dr. Dmitri Sidorov
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things by T. David Beck
Schleiermacher on Christian Consciousness of God's Work in History by Abraham Varghese Kunnuthara
The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Karl Barth by John Thompson
Geoffrey Fisher by David Hein
A Gentleman in Every Slum by David B. McIlhiney
On the Christianity of Theology by Franz Overbeck
Freedom and Civilization Among the Greeks by A. J. Festugiere
Female and Male: The Cultic Personnel: The Bible and the Rest of the Ancient Near East by Richard A. Henshaw
The Loss and Recovery of Transcendence by John C. Robertson
Calvin's Doxology by Pamela Ann Moeller
Fire From the Heights by Moelwyn Merchant
Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin by Peter Wyatt
Jesus, the Parable of God by Dr. Eduard Schweizer
Jesus and the Word by C. K. Barrett
"Those Who Call Themselves Jews" by Dr. Philip L. Mayo
Consenting to God and Nature by Dr. Byron C. Bangert
The Epigones by William A. McComish
The Aims of Jesus by Ben F. Meyer
R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God by D.Z. Phillips
How to do Biblical Theology by Peter Stuhlmacher
Where is My Home? by Dr. Zdenek Bednar
Asian Contextual Theology for the Third Millennium
Searching for Lost Coins by Ann Loades
Tradition Renewed
Polemic in the Book of Hebrews by Lloyd Kim
The Reformed Pastor by John W. Nevin D.D.
The Neo-Orthodox Theology of W. W. Bryden by John Vissers
Renewing Tradition
Reflections of Renaissance England by Dr. Marie-Helene Davies
Theology Beyond Christendom
Enigmas and Powers
Colonial Presbyterianism
The Kitchen Saint and the Heritage of Islam by Brother Lawrence
The Arminian Confession of 1621
The Sacred Text by Ronald F. Satta
Faithfulness and the Purpose of Hebrews by Matthew J. Marohl
Lo, I Tell You a Mystery by Dr. David A. Ackerman
The Tangled Bank by Michael S. Hogue
The Hermeneutical Quest
Christus Faber by Ben F. Meyer
History and Theology by Dr. Piet B. Boshoff
Martin Luther and Buddhism by Paul S. Chung
New Testament Traditions and Apocryphal Narratives by Francois Bovon
Faith, Theology, and Psychoanalysis by Trevor Dobbs Ph.D.
A Place Somewhat Apart by Dr. Philip E. Harrold
Critical Realism and the New Testament by Ben F. Meyer
Theosis
The Triune God by E. L. Mascall
Jeshua by Moelwyn Merchant
Salvaging Wesley's Agenda by Kevin Twain Lowery
The Trial of Jesus Continues by Dr. Rudolf Pesch
Basic Human Rights and the Humanitarian Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gabriel Andrew Msoka
Living Devotions by Mary Clark Moschella
Revitalizing Theological Epistemology by Steven B. Sherman
Speculative Theology and Common-Sense Religion by Linden J. DeBie
Go Figure!
A Church Historian's Odyssey by Horton Davies
Theology of Anticipation by Anette Ejsing
Who Needs a New Covenant? by Michael D. Morrison
God With Us by Joseph Haroutunian
Saints: Visible, Orderly, and Catholic by Alan P.F. Sell
Schleiermacher's Preaching, Dogmatics, and Biblical Criticism by Catherine L. Kelsey
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Melanesia and Micronesia, 1850-1875 by Ralph M. Wiltgen
From the Margins
Calvin's Concept of the Law by Dr. I. John Hesselink
The Present and the Past by Richard J. Ginn
The Way of Theology in Karl Barth
Seasons of the Heart by Sara Henderson Hay
The Subjective Eye
Gladstone: The Making of a Christian Politician by Dr. Peter J. Jagger
On This Rock by Donald G. Miller
The Theology of Electricity by Ernst Benz
The Tondrakian Movement by N.V. Nersessian