![]() ![]() “Power,” said Voltaire, “consists in making others act as I choose.” According to Max Weber, power is present wherever I have the chance “to assert my own will against the resistance” of others. Afterall, what is power except power over other people, the power of exploitation, the power of the master over his employees or slaves. We all “know” that those who have the most weapons or the most material resources, are the real power brokers in society. ![]() ![]() A central teaching of the Bible, that the greatest power is the power of community, of communication, or of love, is easily passed over as a religious pablum which has to be acknowledged but without any real consequence. Hannah Arendt arrives at a Christian insight that many Christians might find more believable or even recognizable from a political scientist and social theorist. ![]()
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