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How have an incredible number of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of these financial position and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Say It, or just wealth gospel come to dominate a lot of our contemporary spiritual surroundings? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first reserve to fully explore the origins, unifying designs, and major figures of your burgeoning movement that now claims millions of followers in the us. Bowler traces the roots of the wealth gospel: from the touring mesmerists, metaphysical sages, pentecostal healers, business oracles, and princely prophets of the early 20th hundred years; through mid-century positive thinkers like Norman Vincent Peale and revivalists like Dental Roberts and Kenneth Hagin; to today's greatly successful wealth preachers. Bowler focuses on such contemporary figures as Creflo Buck, pastor of Atlanta's 30,000-member World Changers Cathedral International; Joel Osteen, known as "the smiling preacher", with a weekly audience of seven million; T. D. Jakes, called by Time journal one of America's most important new religious leaders; Joyce Meyer, evangelist and women's empowerment guru; and many more. At nearly every point in time, day or nights, the American community can tune in to these preachers - on Television set, radio, podcasts, and in their megachurches - to hear the meaning that God desires to bless them with wealth and health. Bowler offers an interpretive framework for scholars and standard listeners alike to comprehend the diverse expressions of Christian great quantity as a cohesive movement bound by shared understandings and common goals.
