# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-wink
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:18:23.314Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-wink"
name: "Walter Wink"
slug: "walter-wink"
description: "Walter Philip Wink was an American Biblical scholar, theologian, and activist who was an important figure in Progressive Christianity. Wink spent much of his career teaching at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. He was well known for his advocacy of and work related to nonviolent resistance and his seminal works on \"The Powers\", Naming the Powers (1984), Unmasking the Powers (1986), Engaging the Powers (1992), When the Powers Fall (1998), and The Powers that Be (1999), all of them commentaries on the Apostle Paul's ethic of spiritual warfare described here:For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
tagline: "American biblical scholar (1935–2012)"
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birthDate: "1935-05-21"
deathDate: "2012-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump