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Item Details
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IMPORTING FAITH
THE EFFECT OF AMERICAN 'WORD OF FAITH' CULTURE ON CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH EVANGELICAL REVIVALISM |
By: |
Glyn J. Ackerley |
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Paperback |
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£24.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0718894251 |
ISBN 13: |
9780718894252 |
Publisher: |
JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD |
Pub. date: |
28 July, 2016 |
Pages: |
328 |
Description: |
A critical assessment of the influence of the American 'Health, Wealth and Prosperity' religious movement on contemporary British evangelical and charismatic churches. |
Synopsis: |
Many twenty-first-century evangelical charismatics in Britain are looking for a faith that works. They want to experience the miraculous in terms of healings and Godsent financial provision. Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent charismatic churches led by those who are perceived to have special insights and to teach principles that will help believers experience the miraculous. But all is not rosy in this promised paradise, and when people are not healed or they remain poor they are often told that it is because they did not have enough faith. This study discovers the origin of the principles that are taught by some charismatic leaders. Glyn Ackerley identifies them as the same ideas that are taught by the positive confession, health, wealth, and prosperity movement, originating in the United States. The origins of the ideas are traced back to New Thought metaphysics and its background philosophies of subjective idealism and pragmatism. These principles were imported into the UK through contact between British leaders and those influenced by American "word of faith" teachers.Glyn Ackerley explains the persuasiveness of such teachers by examining case studies, suggesting their "miracles" may well have social and psychological explanations rather than divine origins. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Lutterworth Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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