Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream write by Tony Tian-Ren Lin. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that believers may achieve both divine salvation and worldly success, because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants. Weaving together his informants' firsthand accounts of their religious experiences and everyday lives, Lin offers poignant insight into how they see their faith transforming them both as individuals and as communities. The theology fuses salvation with material goods so that as these immigrants pursue spiritual rewards they are also, perhaps paradoxically, striving for the American dream. But after all, Lin observes, prosperity is the gospel of the American dream. In this way, while becoming better Prosperity Gospel Pentecostals they are also adopting traditional white American norms. Yet this is not a story of smooth assimilation as most of these immigrants must deal with the immensity of the broader cultural and political resistance to their actually becoming Americans. Rather, Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism gives Latinos the logic and understanding of themselves as those who belong in this country yet remain perpetual outsiders.
The Gospel and the American Dream
The Gospel and the American Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel and the American Dream write by Bruce Leon Shelley. This book was released on 1989. The Gospel and the American Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Myth of the American Dream
The Myth of the American Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of the American Dream write by D. L. Mayfield. This book was released on 2020-05-05. The Myth of the American Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.
Radical
Radical - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical write by David Platt. This book was released on 2012-02-28. Radical available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... BUT WHO DO YOU KNOW WHO LIVES LIKE THAT? DO YOU? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring. (From the 2010 edition)"
Hollow Faith
Hollow Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hollow Faith write by Stephen Ingram. This book was released on 2015-12-15. Hollow Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book for youth leaders, pastors, and parents looks deep into the mirror of pop and church culture and asks the difficult, and often maddening, question, “Are those things we produce and consume defining us?” Author Stephen Ingram explores these themes of moralism, deism, meism, consumerism, pluralism, and therapeutic religion of pop culture, as well as current sociological and psychological data. Hollow Faith separates the values of the gospel from the cultural norms that have domesticated them including: How we believe we should act (The Andy Griffith Show) How we want to be known (Facebook) What we aspire to become (the American Dream) Ingram says that once we recognize these serious shifts in our faith, we can begin to have discussions, develop plans, and form actions to reclaim the vibrant, life-giving faith of the Bible. Includes a Parents Guide in the back.
