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:...

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主要作者: Cornelio, Jayeel
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出版: Archīum Ateneo 2024
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在線閱讀:https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/148
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003222613-22/prosperity-therapeutic-turn-jayeel-cornelio
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總結: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.