Redeeming Power, Diane Langberg
Redeeming Power, Diane Langberg
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Redeeming Power
Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church

Author: Diane Langberg

Narrator: Pam Ward

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2020


Synopsis

Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when used in unhealthy ways. Speaking into current #MeToo and #ChurchToo conversations, this book shows that the body of Christ desperately needs to understand the forms power takes, how it is abused, and how to respond to abuses of power.

Although many Christians want to prevent abuse in their churches and organizations, they lack a deep and clear-eyed understanding of how power actually works. Internationally recognized psychologist Diane Langberg offers a clinical and theological framework for understanding how power operates, the effects of the abuse of power, and how power can be redeemed and restored to its proper God-given place in relationships and institutions. This book not only helps Christian leaders identify and resist abusive systems but also shows how they can use power to protect the vulnerable in their midst.

About Diane Langberg

Diane Langberg is an internationally recognized psychologist and counselor with forty-seven years of experience. She speaks regularly on abuse and trauma all over the world, directs her own counseling practice in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and cofounded the Global Trauma Recovery Institute at Biblical Theological Seminary. Langberg is also on the board of GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in a Christian Environment) led by Boz Tchividjian and cochairs the American Bible Society's Trauma Advisory Counsel. She has authored or coauthored numerous books, including Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse, On the Threshold of Hope, and Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on March 04, 2021

Summary: A psychologist looks at the dynamics of power behind various forms of abuse and trauma in which church figures are either perpetrators or complicit. Diane Langberg is a career psychologist and Christian who has studied physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence and trauma around the world.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 22, 2020

This book has changed my brain in how it sees authority and power! That's the tweet. [possible longer review to come, upon reread]......more

Goodreads review by Marie on October 19, 2020

It took three years to learn about and understand what happened to me and my family at the church we left in 2017. Dr. Diane Langberg and her work helped give me the language to tell our story of spiritual abuse. Through her lectures, articles, and podcast interviews, for the first time in my life,......more

Goodreads review by Dana on May 05, 2022

What an important book. May we learn more every day to model the loving power of Christ, hate the things God hates, and righteously stand by the vulnerable.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on July 11, 2021

The goal of this book is noble, but like a beautiful house built on fractured foundations the result is jumbled. In the wake of several church abuse scandals many are recommending this book as the necessary wake-up call for christians to understand abuse and power correctly, to repent of wrong and ev......more