This essay discusses how prosperity is understood and articulated in Ghanaian Pentecostal prophetic circles. It seeks to show that in the peripheral prophetism of Pentecostalism, prosperity is perceived as the good life Christ offers those who believe in him. The good life is a religious and social quest of Ghanaians. The bad life is a privation of goodness in this life. Coping with the bad life has necessitated the patronage of Ghanaian prophetic services where rituals of transformation are employed to negotiate evil and suffering in the life of the faithful. Critical in the discussion is the role of the 'Other' who creates conditions of impoverishment for people and who justifies the necessity of prophetic negotiation. The paper also analyses the content of the bad life and finally attempts to show that Christ's parables in Luke 16 propose a guiding paradigm for conceiving prosperity as a tool for harmonious interhuman relations.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2011
توصيف ظاهري
291-305
عنوان
Journal of Pentecostal Theology
شماره جلد
20/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1745-5251
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اصطلاح موضوعی
CAUSALITY
اصطلاح موضوعی
EVIL
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
NEGOTIATION
اصطلاح موضوعی
PERIPHERAL PROPHETISM
اصطلاح موضوعی
PROSPERITY
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
THE 'OTHER'
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
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