The gospel and the prosperity gospel: Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now reconsidered
By examining how theologians and lay scholars should respond to the prosperity gospel, this article argues that theological criticism is less a matter of wholesale rejection of false views and more a matter of expanding partial views. Drawing on Pascal and Kierkegaard, I describe what dialectic mean...
| Published in: | Theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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| In: |
Theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Prosperity Gospel
B Criticism B Dialectic B Persuasion B Truth |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | By examining how theologians and lay scholars should respond to the prosperity gospel, this article argues that theological criticism is less a matter of wholesale rejection of false views and more a matter of expanding partial views. Drawing on Pascal and Kierkegaard, I describe what dialectic means for Christian witness. Their insights help us to criticize compassionately - in Paul's words, to speak the truth in love. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X17730980 |