The Powers, he claims, are neither simply human institutions and structures nor an order of angelic (or demonic) beings. They are both institutional and spiritual; they “possess an outer, physical manifestation . . . and an inner spirituality or corporate culture” (Wink 1992a, 17). The Powers are essentially good, but when they become “hell-bent on control,” Wink claims, they degenerate into the Domination System. This system itself is neither only institutional nor spiritual; rather the “forces of this present darkness” (Ephesians 6:2) are the interiority of warped institutions, structures,
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