What is Prosperity Theology: A (Largely) Sociological Review

Paul Freston
I write as a sociologist of religion, and not as a theologian. In addition, I suspect that I have been invited to be a sort of Devil’s advocate… but when I am speaking for the Devil and when for myself, the reader alone will have to decide!

• The First Protestant ‘Prosperity Theology’
• The Socio-Economic Context of the Rise of Prosperity Theology
• Where is Prosperity Theology weak?
• Typologies of Prosperity Theology
• The Flexibility of Prosperity Theology
• Prosperity Theology as a form of spiritual capital
• Prosperity Theology as an incentive to economic initiative in an unjust world
• Prosperity Theology as affirming global capitalism?
• Prosperity Theology as a gift economy
• Prosperity Theology and the broader Christian world
• Prosperity Theology and the non-Christian religious world

For more information go to What is Prosperity Theology: A (Largely) Sociological Review on the Lausanne Movement website.
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