Territorial Spirits and World Evangelisation: A Biblical, Historical and Missiological Critique of Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare

by Chuck Lowe

Over the last decade, a new theory and practice of spiritual warfare has taken hold around the world. This teaching proposes the existence of a newly discovered class of demons, 'territorial spirits', whose function is to rule over specific jurisdictions of different sizes. Along with this theory has come a new practice of spiritual ruling demons are named, their territories identified and they are then bound or cursed. Evangelism and mission are ten said to proceed raplidly with dramatic results.
Chuck Lowe examines the full range of biblical intertestamental, historical and empirical evidence cited in promotion of this new teaching. Lowe affirms that we need to be involved in spiritual warfare and proposes a more biblically legitimate and effective model.

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1969

Reviews

[Adam Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

A brief, helpful overview and critique of "Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare", and its ideas of territorial demons and warfare prayer. Particularly valuable were the discussion of historical perspectives (intertestamental Judaism and medieval Christianity) and the attempt to recover a positive alternative approach to spiritual warfare. The book did feel slightly lacking in substance, however. In particular, the biblical discussion could have been developed further, the chapter on empirical evidence seemed overly brief, and the arguments of SLSW proponents could have been fleshed out a bit more throughout. Nevertheless, this is worth a read in thinking through newer approaches to spiritual warfare, whether SLSW or not.