Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Part 1: Hermeneutical Issues; 2. Four Models for Interpreting the Powers; 3. A Proposed Way Forward: Practices; Part 2: Practices for Engaging the Powers in the Pauline Communities; 4. Baptism as Deliverance from the Powers: Romans; 5. Cross-Centered Preaching and Church Discipline as Confrontation with the Powers: 1 & 2 Corinthians; 6. Bondage under the Elements: Galatians; 7. Rescue from the Power of Darkness: Colossians; 8. Summary: What are the Powers for Paul?; Part 3: A Cross-cultural Perspective; 9. The Powers in Cross-Cultural Context: Africa; Reference Works; Bibliography.

About the Author

Robert Ewusie Moses is assistant professor of religion at High Point University and was recently a Visiting DAAD Scholar at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg. He has written a number of scholarly articles in biblical studies and is researching the concept of idolatry in Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. This volume is a revision of Moses' dissertation at Duke University under the direction of Richard B. Hays..