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Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power by Andy Crouch (InterVarsity Press, 2013).
I think many of us have developed our understanding of power from Lord Acton’s axiom: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. For most of us, that is the end of story and this accounts, at least among many Christians I know, for a deep aversion to anything like the exercise of power.