Walter Wink

Walter Wink (born 1935) is a professor emeritus at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. His faculty discipline is Biblical interpretation. Wink earned his 1959 Master of Divinity and his 1963 Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Ordained a Methodist minister in 1961, he served as Pastor of First United Methodist Church, in Hitchcock, Texas from 1962–67. He then returned to Union Seminary as first Assistant, then Associate Professor of New Testament. In 1989–1990, he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.^[1]

He is known for his work on power structures, with a progressive Christianity view on current political and cultural matters. He coined the phrase "the myth of redemptive violence", and has contributed to discourse on homosexuality and religion, pacifism, psychology and Biblical Studies, and Jesus as a historical figure. Neal Stephenson likens some of Wink's ideas to "an epidemiology of power disorders", a phenomenology of oppression.^[2] Author Philip Yancey references Wink frequently in his work.^[3][4]

One of Wink's major avenues for teaching has been his leadership of workshops to church and other groups, based on his method of Bible study (The Bible in Human Transformation, 1973), and incorporating meditation, artwork, and movement. These workshops are often presented jointly with his second wife, June Keener-Wink, a dancer and potter.

One of Walter Wink's sons—Chris Wink—is known as a founding member of the Blue Man Group.

Partial bibliography

• John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1968. (out of print)
• The Bible in Human Transformation, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973. (out of print)
• The Powers Trilogy:
  • Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984. ISBN 0-8006-1786-X
  • Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8006-1902-1
  • Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8006-2646-X
• Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa, Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1987. (out of print)
• Transforming Bible Study, second edition, Nashville: Abingdon, 1990. (out of print)
• Proclamation 5: Holy Week, Year B, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. (out of print)
• Cracking the Gnostic Code: The Powers in Gnosticism, (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series), Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55540-860-5
• When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8006-3127-7; Swedish edition: Healing a Nation's Wounds: Reconciliation on the Road to Democracy (Uppsala, Sweden: Life and Peace Institute, 1997)
• The Powers That Be:Theology for a New Millennium, New York: Doubleday, 1999. ISBN 0-385-48752-5
• Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches (editor), Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8006-3186-2
• Peace Is The Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation., (editor), Orbis Books, 2000. ISBN 1-57075-315-6
• John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001. ISBN 1-57910-529-7
• The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man, Fortress Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8006-3262-1
• Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way, Augsburg Fortress, 2003. ISBN 0-8006-3609-0

References

1. ^ Dr. Wink's Curriculum Vitae
2. ^ "Neal Stephenson's Past,Present, and Future". http://www.reason.com/news/show/36481.html. Retrieved 2008-09-09. 
3. ^ "CSEC". http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/yancey_3923.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-09. 
4. ^ "Christianity Today". http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/april2/33.96.html. Retrieved 2007-11-09. 

External links

• Personal website
• Myth of Redemptive Violence
• Christian Nonviolence
• Neal Stephenson cites Walter Wink
• Walter Wink - The Third Way

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