Dr. Walter Wink is Professor at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. His faculty discipline is Biblical Interpretation. He previously worked as a parish minister and professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In 1989-1990 he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.
He is known for his work on power structures, with a progressive Christian view on current political and cultural matters. He coined the phrase "the myth of redemptive violence", and has contributed to discourse on homosexuality, pacifism, and Jesus as a historical figure. Neal Stephenson likens some of Wink's ideas to "an epidemiology of power disorders", a phenomenology of oppression.
Published works include:
- The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man (Fortress Press, 2001.)
- Peace Is The Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. (Edited by Walter Wink. Orbis Books, 2000.)
- The Powers That Be:Theology for a New Millennium (New York: Doubleday, 1999)
- Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999)
- The Powers Trilogy:
- Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984)
- Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986)
- Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992)
- When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998). Swedish edition: Healing a Nation's Wounds: Reconciliation on the Road to Democracy (Uppsala, Sweden: Life and Peace Institute, 1997)
- Cracking the Gnostic Code: The Powers in Gnosticism (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993)
- Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1987). (Out of print)
- Transforming Bible Study, second edition (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990) (Out of print)
- The Bible in Human Transformation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973). (Out of print)
- John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1968). (Out of print)
- Proclamation 5: Holy Week, Year B (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993). (Out of print)
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