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Africans Warn 'False Gospel of Prosperity' May Displace Churches

Mainstream churches reportedly no longer at forefront of aid and comfort.

By Jonathan Luxmoore in Hofgeismar, Germany | posted 6/16/00 | posted 6/01/2000 12:00AM

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Can you read German? Here's Pax Christi's page on Colloquium 2000.Bong Rin Ro, academic dean and professor of church history and missions at the Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology in Seoul wrote an article for Christianity Today about how "prosperity gospel" preachers were influencing religious life in South Korea.An article from South Africa's News24 discusses the growing power of Christianity (and prosperity teachings) in Africa.If you can find it (it's not online), check out Paul Gifford's article "Prosperity: A New and Foreign Element in African Christianity," in the journal Religion, Vol. 20 (1990).

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