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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 God-sent financial provision. Many have left the mainstream churches to join independent charismatic churches led by those who are perceived to have special insights into faith and to teach principles that will help believers experience the miraculous. But all is t rosy in this promised paradise, and when people are t healed or they remain poor they are often told that it is because they did t have eugh faith or are too negative. This study seeks to discover the origin of the principles that are taught by some charismatic leaders. 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 American pragmatism. These principles were imported into the UK through contact between British leaders and those influenced and trained by American word of faith teachers. The author seeks to explain the persuasiveness of such teachers through examining case studies. He suggests their miracles may well have social and psychological explanations rather than divine origins. In this highly readable book, Glyn Ackerley introduces us to the 'Health, Wealth and Prosperity Movement' (HWPM)--sometimes kwn as the 'Name It and Claim It' churches. Dr. Ackerley's carefully researched mograph arises out of his doctoral study, and his thesis is a measured and sober assessment. In so doing, Ackerley offers a sharp critique of abusive religious thinking and practice. I warmly commend his work. --Martyn Percy, Dean, Christ Church College, Oxford University Christians tend to accept the religious phemena of their age without thinking too deeply of how and why things are as they are. In this sense they fail to see the cultural and practical factors that are imported along with religious experience. In a study that is sympathetic, critical, and scholarly, Ackerley here engages in just such an analysis of popular ministries active in the British context and manages both to appreciate their value and to identify their cultural indebtedness. --Nigel G. Wright, Principal Emeritus, Spurgeon's College, London What makes this book very special is Glyn Ackerley himself. His pastoral concern for 'refugees' who had been damaged spiritually--and sometimes financially--and had landed up in his parish was his primary motivation for exposing the sub-Christian theology and practice of the Neo-Gstic subcultures that in the name of Christianity peddle a different gospel . . . [T]his is a daring book written by a brave man. --Andrew Walker, Professor of Theology and Education, Kings College, London Glyn Ackerley is Director of Ordinands in the Diocese of Rochester, England. He is also Vicar of Shorne, Kent. He was ordained in 1987 and was Vicar of St. Philip & St. James, Walderslade from 1994 to 2009. He has wide experience of charismatic renewal.

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Publisher
Pickwick Publications
ISBN-10
1498219497
ISBN-13
9781498219495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
223594206

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603g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

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19mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Foreword by
Dean of Christ Church Martyn Percy
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Author(s)
Glyn J Ackerley
Date of Publication
23/10/2015
Format Details
Sewn,Cloth over Boards
Subject
Religion: Comparative, General & Référence
Imprint
Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Religion: Comparative, General & Référence

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