{"id":77290,"date":"2019-01-12T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77290"},"modified":"2019-01-12T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T23:21:32","slug":"amy-welbourn-some-reflections-on-the-attractions-of-the-prosperity-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77290","title":{"rendered":"Amy Welbourn&#8211;Some Reflections on the Attractions of the Prosperity Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All heresies are, essentially, an imbalance \u2013 the heightening of one aspect of truth over all others.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that the fundamental error of any \u201cProsperity Gospel\u201d lies in the elevation of the truth that yes, we find authentic peace and true joy when our wills and choices are aligned with God\u2019s will. That\u2019s the truth we find in the very beginning of Scripture: Adam and Eve at peace in the Garden, and then at war with each other, God, nature and themselves outside of it.<\/p>\n<p>The way that a \u201cProsperity Gospel\u201d twists this truth is when it encourages us to uncritically identify the fruits of a right relationship with God with anything temporal.<\/p>\n<p>It instrumentalizes the spiritual life.<\/p>\n<p>So now, look beyond the easy targets of health-and-wealth. Survey the contemporary popular spiritual landscape, Catholic and otherwise. If there\u2019s a current self-help trend out there, are spiritual gurus close behind, baptizing it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amywelborn.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/08\/prosperous\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All heresies are, essentially, an imbalance \u2013 the heightening of one aspect of truth over all others. It seems to me that the fundamental error of any \u201cProsperity Gospel\u201d lies in the elevation of the truth that yes, we find<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77290\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,582,149,129,108,414,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic-other-churches","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77291,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77290\/revisions\/77291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}