Prosperity Gospel: Effects on Nigerian Christian Church and Society

22 Christian Engagement in Secular Society : Politics , the Gospel , and Moral Infl uence

K. T. Magnuson is Professor of Christian Ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor of Christian ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. His received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Magnuson has writ ten ar ticles on many topics, includings marriage, sexual moralit y, infertility, and...

THE GLOBALISATION OF CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity

Effects of Greek orthodox christian church fasting on serum lipids and obesity

BACKGROUND No study to date has focused on the impact of Greek Orthodox Christian fasting on serum lipoproteins and obesity yet. METHODS 120 Greek adults were followed longitudinally for one year. Sixty fasted regularly in all fasting periods (fasters) and 60 did not fast at all (controls). The three major fasting periods under study were: Christmas (40 days), Lent (48 days) and Assumption (A...

Suffering Depression in the Christian Church--One Person's Experience.

The author has suffered for several years from Anxiety and depression. Here she describes her experiences, both of depression and of her experience as a person suffering from depression within the Christian Church.

Poverty, Illiteracy cum Prosperity Theology: A Quantitative Study

Prosperity Theology is the teaching that believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the “sowing of seeds” through the faithful payment of tithes and offerings. However, the literature reveals that most adherents to the prosperity gospel are not prospering financially and prosperity preachers hav...