Fr. Hopko's Introduction describes Joy's book as a powerfully dynamic description of how we can participate in Christ's victory over the devil, darkness, disease and death. She describes in detail the many tools (eleven in number) that Christ provides for us to be not victims but "overcomers," describing in detail what St. Paul calls, "the whole armor of God." She is constrained to expose and analyze, in starkest and most vivid detail, our ceaseless warfare with the devil and his evil angels, as she describes the powerful arsenal God makes available to us that we may share forever in Christ's invincible victory.