Samantha L. Miller

John Chrysostom and African Charismatic Theology in Conversation

ISBN: 978-1-978704-45-9
EAN: 9781978704459
Produktnummer: 35884134
Verlag: Fortress Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 170 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Salvation, Deliverance, and the Prosperity Gospel

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This book puts John Chrysostom in conversation with deliverance ministries and the prosperity gospel in modern African charismatic Christianity. Samantha Miller argues that Chrysostom had a cosmology not unlike that present in the charismatic Christianity of the global south, where the world is populated by spirits able to affect the material world. Additionally, Chrysostom had plenty to say about suffering, demons, and prosperity. Through this conversation, issues of personal moral responsibility and salvation rise to the surface, and it is through these issues that modern Western and African Christians-theologians, pastors, missionaries, an… Mehr