Prosperity and the Therapeutic Turn
This chapter argues that megachurches around the world have taken a therapeutic turn: Self-help has become a dominant theological theme. Aimed at the cultivation of the self, its main premise is that believers can discover and fulfill their potential. Three areas matter to the theology of self-help:...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | text |
| Published: |
Archīum Ateneo
2024
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/148 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003222613-22/prosperity-therapeutic-turn-jayeel-cornelio |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Institution: | Ateneo De Manila University |
| Summary: | This chapter argues that megachurches around the world have taken a therapeutic turn: Self-help has become a dominant theological theme. Aimed at the cultivation of the self, its main premise is that believers can discover and fulfill their potential. Three areas matter to the theology of self-help: purpose, personal issues, and prosperity. The latter part of the chapter offers sociological explanations that account for the therapeutic turn. It then ends with a critical reflection. Sacralizing self-help fails to confront structural contexts of inequality that engender the very ontological insecurity it wishes to address. |
|---|