Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Art of Spiritual War

I've just posted my most recent paper, entitled The Art of Spiritual War, here. I wrote it for my "Exposition of Ephesians" class, and, as you may have guessed, the topic is spiritual warfare. The paper evaluates some currently-popular spiritual warfare strategies (spiritual mapping, prayers of binding, and stronghold breaking) and focuses on Ephesians 6:10-18.

The title is a not-so-subtle reference to Sun Tzu's The Art of War which I quoted throughout the paper . . . I thought I was being clever, but judging from the blank stares of the half dozen or so people I mentioned it to, a lot fewer people have heard of Sun Tzu than I thought . . . it must be a geek thing.

Due to Karen's constant morning sickness, another 12 page paper being due at the same time, my thinking I had a week longer than I did to write this paper, and my professor's unwillingness to give me any more than 17 hours extension, this was researched and written over the course of about a week I think it came out okay, but it was a "rush job" so I apologize if it is lacking in thoroughness or quality.

The paper is about 9 single-spaced pages long. If you read it, the only footnotes you really need to pay attention to are 2, 8, 27, and 29. All the rest are just citations. As with all my papers feel free to read or ignore as you deem appropriate!

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