Religion and Politics

Holy High Rollers

At The Wilson Quarterly, Randall Stephens reviews A History of the American Prosperity Gospel by Kate Bowler, an assistant professor of the history of Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He writes, “In a lively book on the subject, Kate Bowler observes that ‘prosperity theology turned to the cross as the solution to all human needs. Jesus’s death and resurrection abolished not only sin and disease but also poverty.’ Bowler, an assistant professor of the history of Christianity in the United States at Duke Divinity School, fuses ethnography, religious studies, and cultural history to tell a fascinating story of this influential movement.” 

Read at The Wilson Quarterly

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