Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

by N.T. Wright

The globe is awash with terror, tyranny and trauma, divisions and despair, not just in the West, but also in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Jesus and the Powers has one objective: to say that, in an age of ascending autocracies, in a time of fear and fragmentation, amid carnage and crises, Jesus is King, and Jesus’ kingdom remains the object of the Church’s witness and work.

‘he has put all his enemies under his feet’ (1 Corinthians 15:25).

We must think deeply as disciples, without partisan prejudice, unbeguiled by the deceptions of demagogues, in order to attain ‘every good thing that is at work in us to lead us into the Messiah’ (Philemon 6).