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...

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Main Author: Johnson, Russell P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 121, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-34
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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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