The Prosperity Preacher

Kate bowler is an associate professor of the history of christianity at duke divinity school. She has written 20 13 book, blest, a history of the american prosperity gospel. It says in the back cover, the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes and major figures of a movement that now claims millions of followers in America. The term itself is very controversial. No one wants to be called a prosperity preacher. So why does cape bowler and so many others insist on identifying them by that term? After interviewing dozens of leaders throughout this movement, bowler figured out why so many obj ted to the prosperity label,. Even as they preached a message of