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為切入點，梳理成功神學從十九世紀新思想運動、皮爾到電視布道家的演變脈絡。文章認為，這套把信仰變成祈求物質回報的交易邏輯，不僅解釋了福音派選民對特朗普的忠誠，也折射出美國政治對成功與勝利的崇拜。