Wrestling with Dark Angels: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare

Wrestling With Dark Angels is a collection of articles focusing on the influence of spiritual forces of evil on places, groups of people, institutions and even cities or countries, and approaches to Christian ministry against such influences. About the Editors Charles Peter Wagner received his B.S. at Rutgers University, 1952; M.Div. at Fuller Theological Seminary, 1955; Th.M. at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1962; M.A. at Fuller Seminary School of World Mission, 1968 and his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 1977. From 1956-1971 the Wagners were missionaries with the South American Mission and Andes Evangelical Mission where they ministered in Bolivia.In 1971 Wagner became a professor of Church Growth at the School of Intercultural Studies, a part of Fuller Theological Seminary. He and Donald McGavran established the school as a popular and influential organization within the Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements internationally. In 1981 Wagner replaced McGavran as head of the faculty. Wagner retired from his position there in 1998 to focus on his own areas of ministry.In 1982 Wagner teamed up with John Wimber, a founder of the Vineyard Movement, to create a new course at Fuller called "Signs, Wonders and Church Growth". Since that point, Wagner has been formally associated with Charismatic teaching and theology. Wagner describes himself as a Charismatic Evangelical. During the 1990s he also taught a Sunday School class with a strong focus on the charismatic gifts, known as "120 Fellowship", at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California.Wagner is the founder of Global Harvest Ministries, and co-founder of the World Prayer Center. Wagner and his wife, Doris, live in Colorado Springs and since 2006 they have attended Dutch Sheet's "Freedom Church". Wagner is the author of more than 30 books, including Engaging the Enemy, Wrestling with Dark Angels, and How to Have a Healing Ministry in Any Church. F. Douglas Pennoyer is the son of New Tribes missionaries to the Philippines. Dr. Pennoyer spent his childhood years among the Mt. Pinatubo Negritos of Zambales province. He attended elementary schools in Tondo, Manila and Villar, Iba and Botolan, Zambales. He was at Faith Academy from 1959-1963, and graduated from Kings High in Seattle in 1965. In 1973-74, he studied the religion and customs of the Tawbuid tribe. His thesis, Tawbuid Plants and Ritual Complexes, and six subsequent articles in professional journals, are the only comprehensive published statements on this isolated tribal group of Eastern Mindoro, Philippines. Pennoyer received his Ph.D., Washington State University; M.A., Washington State University, Pullman and his B.A., Western Oregon University.He worked for seven years (1975-1982) with one of the nation's largest multi-tribal councils, the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington. As the Executive Director of a staff of thirty, and an annual budget in excess of $1 million, he ran socio-economic, health, legal, and natural resource programs for 18 small tribes in Washington and Oregon. At Seattle Pacific University (1983-1991) he headed up the Intercultural Institute of Missions, a coordinative entity on campus that worked with the faculty, staff, and students at SPU to strengthen the missions program and to develop, promote and seek funding for missions and international programming. He also ran a Greater Seattle annual missions conference, administered a Pew Foundation grant to internationalize the curriculum of Christian colleges, and acted as the recruiter and training host for an ESI summer program that sent people to China to teach English.Dr. Pennoyer is currently the Dean, School of Intercultural Studies and Professor of Intercultural Studies at Biola University. Previous to this he was Senior Pastor from the Snohomish Free Methodist Church(1991-1998). In 1997, he was ordained an Elder by the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America. During the 1989-90 school year, he also preached and taught Bible classes at Eastside Free Methodist in Bellevue, Washington. He planted and co-pastored a non-denominational church, Family Bible Fellowship of Puyallup (1976-1981). He is a member of the Southern California Conference of the Free Methodist Church, serves on the Board of FEBC, and is the President of the Evangelical Missiological Society.