![]() I'll start with the (apparent) criticism and end with the praise: Bowler doesn't manage to create much of a narrative. I apparently missed out on the appendices (though I skimmed what I could on Amazon), so my review may be slightly skewed. I listened to an audio version, read well by Bowler herself. Then the author of this book, Kate Bowler, who is my age, wrote a beautifully profound article on her own terminal cancer in the New York Times, and before I completed the piece I bought her book. It seemed so impossible to take it all seriously I was hoping someone could help me understand its origins and teachings. I listened to an I'd had this book on my wishlist for a while it seemed like the prosperity gospel was as popular as it was egregiously wrong-and it was increasing in both respects. I'd had this book on my wishlist for a while it seemed like the prosperity gospel was as popular as it was egregiously wrong-and it was increasing in both respects. Bowler offers an interpretive framework for scholars and general readers alike to understand the diverse expressions of Christian abundance as a cohesive movement bound by shared understandings and common goals.more ![]() At almost any moment, day or night, the American public can tune in to these preachers-on TV, radio, podcasts, and in their megachurches-to hear the message that God desires to bless them with wealth and health. Jakes, named by Time magazine one of America's most influential new religious leaders Joyce Meyer, evangelist and women's empowerment guru and many others. ![]() Bowler focuses on such contemporary figures as Creflo Dollar, pastor of Atlanta's 30,000-member World Changers Church International Joel Osteen, known as "the smiling preacher," with a weekly audience of seven million T. Bowler traces the roots of the prosperity gospel: from the touring mesmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business oracles, and princely prophets of the early 20th century through mid-century positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivalists like Oral Roberts and Kenneth Hagin to today's hugely successful prosperity preachers. Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in America. How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explo How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? ![]()
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