John Chrysostom and African Charismatic Theology in Conversation
Salvation, Deliverance, and the Prosperity Gospel
Abstract
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, and laity—can perhaps have a conversation that gets past the question of a spirit-inhabited world and talk together about the saving work of Christ for the benefit of all the church.
Schlagworte
deliverance ministry demonology virtue global south christianities patristics- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 131–136 Conclusion 131–136
- 137–144 Bibliography 137–144
- 145–146 Index 145–146
- 147–148 Subject and Author Index 147–148
- 149–150 About the Author 149–150