Table of Contents

Introduction: The Normativity of Evil Within a Warfare Worldview

Part I: The Warfare Worldview of the Old Testament
1. Hearing Zosia: The Problem with the Problem of Evil
2. Locking Up the Raging Sea: The Hostile Environment of the Earth
3. Slaying Leviathan: Cosmic Warfare and the Preservation and Restoration of Creation
4. Judging "the Gods": Yahweh's Conflict with Angelic Beings in the Old Testament
5 Rebuking the Adversary: The Activity and Origin of Satan in the Old Testament

Part II: The Warfare Worldview of the New Testament
6. Tying up the Strong Man: The Kingdom of God as a Warfare Concept
7. War of the Worlds: The Warfare Theme of Jesus' Exorcisms and Miracles
8. Storming the Gates of Hell: Kingdom Conflict in the Teachings of Jesus
9. Christus Victor: The Warfare Significance of Christ's Death and Resurrection
10. Engaging the Powers: The Christian Life as Spiritual Warfare

Notes

Index

Bibliography

About the Author

Gregory A. Boyd (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is a pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Previously, he was a professor of theology at Bethel University, also in St. Paul. His books include Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies, Letters from a Skeptic, God of the Possible, Repenting of Religion, Seeing is Believing, Escaping the Matrix, The Jesus Legend, Myth of a Christian Nation, Is God to Blame, God at War and Satan and the Problem of Evil.