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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...

The Faith movement uses so much evangelical and Pentecostal terminology and so many biblical proof-texts that most believers are lulled into a false sense of security as to its orthodoxy. Second, as even one of its arch-critics has admitted, the Faith gospel is “without question the most attractive message being preached today or, for that matter, in the whole history of the Church.”[8] Seldom if ever, has there been a gospel that has promised so much, and demanded so little. The Faith gospel is