One Nation Under the Prosperity Gospel

As the grandson of a Pentecostal preacher, I can quote each of the thirty-five verses of Exodus 32, in which the recently liberated Hebrew peoples, fed up waiting for Moses to descend from Mount Sinai with divine orders, ask his brother, Aaron, to make them new gods. After beckoning them all to give up their […]

作者以特朗普金色雕像事件为切入点，梳理成功神学从十九世纪新思想运动、皮尔到电视布道家的演变脉络。文章认为，这套把信仰变成祈求物质回报的交易逻辑，不仅解释了福音派选民对特朗普的忠诚，也折射出美国政治对成功与胜利的崇拜。