Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel

by Kate Bowler

Book Overview

How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape?

Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199827699
• ISBN13: 9780199827695
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"