Description
Book SynopsisThis book puts John Chrysostom in conversation with deliverance ministries and the prosperity gospel in modern African charismatic Christianity. Chrysostom had a cosmology not unlike that present in the charismatic Christianity of the global south, where the world is populated by spirits able to affect the material world. Additionally, Chrysostom had plenty to say about suffering, demons, and prosperity. Through this conversation, issues of personal moral responsibility and salvation rise to the surface, and it is through these issues that modern Western and African Christians can perhaps have a conversation that gets past the “weirdness” of a spirit-inhabited world and talk together about the saving work of Christ for the benefit of all the Church.
Table of Contents1. Charismatic Christianity in Africa
2. John Chrysostom’s World and Modern Africa: Intersections
3. A Conversation about Deliverance
4. A Conversation about Prosperity
5. Themes of the Conversations
