Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

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Summary: Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God
Review: Bravo to Marva Dawn! This is an important book and very worth reading, especially for those of us who work in and around the church. Marva Dawn reminds us all of the importance God places on authentic personal weakness and vulnerability. Indeed, God tabernacles in it. In a day and age where, in the name of relevance, evangelism, inclusivity, etc. churches are buying into the power strategies of techno-ministry, Dawn prophetically reminds us to beware. Beware that we don't operate as fallen powers rather than Christ's church. My staff was challenged and encouraged by this book. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Superb Piece on Power, Weakness and Church Practice
Review: I find Marva Dawn to be one of the most interesting, authentic and engaging theologians writing today. In this lucid work based on a seriese of lectures that she gave at Pittsburg Theological Seminary, Dawn offers a fascinating treatment of the bibilical concept of the principalities and powers and coupled with a profound theology of weakness. For this she draws heavily on the work of Jacques Ellul, on whoose work she is probably the foremost scholar writing today. The result is a superb biblically informed, Christ centered triniatarian theological treatment of how the church is called to resist the subversive powers that vie for control of human lives in the world today.

This book is excellent, timely and profound. It deserves a wide readership in the today's church, which in so many ways has become subverted and acts simply like one of the fallen powers.

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Summary: Practicing what she preaches
Review: Within this very credible work of scholarship Dawn has not shied away from her own faithful testimony of our own power's coming to an end in weakness. This is a prayerful study, a humble study, and, consequently, a powerful study of the vocation of the Church in the world. This book has opened my eyes to some of my own violation of that true calling. This is the work of a balanced scholar and sister in the Lord. Highly recommended!