So the newest episode is up and it was a necessary follow-up as a matter of principle to episode 7. I had meant to get around to writing about spiritual warfare as a necessary component of the "state of emergency" because the biggest amount of material Mark taught on spiritual warfare in terms of hours talked was the 2008 spiritual warfare session. Even Win Your War is in many respects a revisitation of material from 2008.
My little reading list of about 50 books on spiritual warfare, diabology, exorcism, Enochic literature, and the topic of spirit-possession in the ancient near east is connected to wanting to eventually deal with the issue of spiritual warfare within Mars Hill history as a subset not only of charismatic beliefs but as a subset of beliefs within evangelicalism and fundamentalism. It would be bad history and theology to claim that Mark got his ideas about deliverance strictly from charismatic theologies. James Collins has a helpful survey delineating how fundamentalists and evangelicals and charismatics have a surprisingly large amount of overlap in the core concepts of their not-exorcism approach to spiritual warfare.
But episode 8 just dropped and I'll need time to listen to it. I've also been meaning to write about Win Your War.
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