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The ``name it, claim it'' theology of the Word Faith Movement˝is presented as biblical---but is it? In this compelling˝book, McConnell documents the historical link between faith˝theology and New Thought metaphysics. He then analyzes faith˝theology's doctrines of healing and prosperity as well as its˝understanding of the atonement of Christ to show how they˝deviate from biblical teaching. This...

All that is being claimed at this point is that the father of the Faith movement seems to have associated with a religious group that denied the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. Had this been the only such heretical group with which Kenyon associated during his years in Boston, then his Unitarian venture could be written off as a meaningless experiment in religious curiosity. That is simply not the case, however, for in 1892 Kenyon enrolled in the Emerson College of Oratory, an institution