John Chrysostom and African Charismatic Theology in Conversation: Salvation, Deliverance, and the Prosperity Gospel

Samantha L. Miller

doi:10.5771/9781978704459

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright Year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0444-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0445-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 150
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Abbreviations No access
4. Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Charismatic Christianity in Africa No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter 2 John Chrysostom’s World and Modern Africa No access Pages 29 - 54
Chapter 3 A Conversation about Deliverance No access Pages 55 - 82
Chapter 4 A Conversation about Prosperity No access Pages 83 - 110
Chapter 5 Themes of the Conversations No access Pages 111 - 130
Conclusion No access Pages 131 - 136
Bibliography No access Pages 137 - 144
Index No access Pages 145 - 146
Subject and Author Index No access Pages 147 - 148
About the Author No access Pages 149 - 150