
Episode 181: Kate Bowler - The Prosperity Gospel & a Theology of Suffering
The Bible For Normal People
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What Is Faith?
The prosperity movement came out of a confluence of maybe four different streams, beginning in the late nineteenth century. The first developments in new thought was the move from faith for health to a faith for finances. This is kind of like a city religion, something that helps explain the difference between the rich and the poor when people are all crowded up next to each other. It has resonance with certain theologies of sanctification, that we are like a perfectibility project,. But the feeling yet, that that the divine is you.
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