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ISBN: 0830832289
Author: Robert Linthicum
Publisher: IVP Books (October 9, 2003)
Language: English
Pages: 216
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Robert Linthicum offers an integrative, biblical study of the proper use of power

Robert Linthicum offers an integrative, biblical study of the proper use of power. Based on a thorough exploration of Scripture and decades of real-world experience in community organizing and urban ministry, Linthicum's model of relational power provides sound, practical strategies for changing individuals, communities, structures and systems. With insights from biblical mentors like Nehemiah and Paul as well as contemporary examples of Christians in action, this book offers hope for all who want to move toward the vision of the shalom community-God's intended best for communities.

Book: Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community by: Robert Linthicum IVP Books (2003) Summary by: Rev. Bethany Dudley. Author Robert Linthicum is an urban renewal specialist who started Partners in Urban Transformation, now a part of Millennium Tools

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"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just"--Blaise Pascal. Problems plague the world around us. Many in our churches and communities face injustice, crime, poverty, racism and other daunting evils. But often Christians have not known how to respond effectively. The issues seem bigger than anything the church can handle, and so we are paralyzed into inaction and offer halfhearted prayers at best. Yet throughout history God has empowered his people to stand up to injustice. When the situation calls for confrontation or structural change, our response must be more than personal piety, pastoral care or individualistic evangelism. Christians must become proficient in the practice and exercise of power. Christians have often been wary of power, thinking of it as something inherently evil or oppressive. But God calls his people to wield power responsibly and to use it to promote his kingdom ideals of justice and peace. Robert Linthicum offers an integrative, biblical study of the proper use of power. Based on a thorough exploration of Scripture and decades of real-world experience in community organizing and urban ministry, Linthicum's model of relational power provides sound, practical strategies for changing individuals, communities, structures and systems. With insights from biblical mentors like Nehemiah and Paul as well as contemporary examples of Christians in action, this book offers hope for all who want to move toward the vision of the shalom community--God's intended best for communities and the world.

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Robert Linthicum recognizes that, despite our best charitable efforts and works of community development, society will not change if the power structures undergirding injustice are not challenged and transformed. He therefore set out a Christian framework for conscionably utilizing power on behalf of God’s vision of shalom. Linthicum’s effectiveness stems from his equal expertise in biblical theology and community organizing. His writing brings the same new life to the text as it does to a vision of effective grassroots movements.

Transforming Power develops by outlining the shalom community, examining causes of injustice, and providing concrete advice for justice advocacy.

Linthicum claims that society is organized through three interwoven systems: the political (sets standards the guide a society’s decision making for their common life), economic (the agreed upon means of exchange), and religious (the broadly inclusive stewards and creators of a society’s beliefs, values and basic convictions). These systems become structured around their community’s power dynamics. Power, he proceeds to assert, can function either unilaterally (top down, one directional control of the powerful over the weak for self-serving benefits) or relationally (power shared between parties in which one works with the other for mutual benefit).

Injustice is therefore able to persist despite the good or evil intentions of individuals because system level power dynamics allow ways of life that flow either toward justice or injustice to become institutionalized in the structures that manage how a society organizes itself. For example, no individual decides that a certain percentage of our population should be homeless. As a culture, we have simply embraced values that support a market economy and politics that protect the interests of businesses over the disenfranchised. Homelessness is subsequently accepted as a fair outcome for those who do not adequately compete.

Linthicum’s exegesis of Deuteronomy challenges this inequitable logic. He believes that God’s vision for society is a comprehensive order in which the wellbeing of the whole is collectively guarded and actively sought. God desires for all peoples to live in the shalom community that builds “their society upon a religion of personal and corporate relationships with God and each other, a politics of justice and an economics of equitable distribution of wealth” (37). Jesus’ ministry inaugurated a Church tasked with the prophetic ministry of holding society to this just standard.

While the theoretical foundations are exemplary, Linthicum’s organizing approach might be critiqued by more recent works (like Faith-Rooted Organizing) for its over-reliance on Alinsky-style methods/terminology. While semantically he might need tweaks at times, the praxis of this text is fabulous. As someone who has read A LOT of urban ministry texts, I give this one my highest recommendation.

Iraraeal

This book opened my eyes to thoughts no pastor or teacher has ever presented how we are to allow the presence of God to affect the world. I was transformed by this book. It is a must have no matter ones religious views or background. The principles can benefit companies and so forth...

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For those who want to understand power, how it works and do a power analysis, this book is for you. It will give you a new view of what power means, especially in the Christian world and the community.

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Agalas

This is an outstanding piece--it should be far more widely read than the attention it has received.

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Transforming Power is Linthicum's challenge to the Evangelical World to be smart about power - not the smoke and mirrors power of politics, which he hardly mentions, but the real, daily life power of bringing positive change to neighborhoods and cities. Starting with a solid biblical theology of society, with its spiritual, cultural, economical and political strands, Linthicum then moves to a description of God's intentions for the world. His discussion of the shalom community will not be new to frequent urbana.org readers, but he manages to bring freshness to the topic.

Linthicum's core message is what he calls the "Iron Rule of Power": never do for others what they can do for themselves. This notion, honed over decades of community organizing, means simply: don't create dependencies. Linthicum's case study is Nehemiah, who managed to enlist the residents of a decimated Jerusalem in the rebuilding of its walls.

Moving to the New Testament, Linthicum discusses the difference between relational power, legislative power, and violent power. The former is the greatest, because it is the longest lasting, and the most effective. It is also the power wielded by Jesus to the tremendous frustration of the wielders of legislative power in his day. In the same way, Christians need to be great stewards of their relationships, in order to most effectively distribute God's empowerment among his church.

Transforming Power is both a theoretical book and a practical book and is well worth the read. While it could have used a bit more discussion of spiritual realities and strongholds, the book should provide a powerful biblical framework for our use of, rather than our flight from, power.

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