Product #: TWFC137
Author(s): Robert M. Bowman Jr.
Contents: 254 pages

Is it God's will that believers be healthy, wealthy, and wise? Wise, certainly, but what about the other two? The word-faith movement has stirred up confusion and curiosity about the role of faith in healing and prosperity. Can believers gain bodily health and financial wealth through "positive confession"? How, and with whom, did this message start?

In The Word-Faith Controversy, Robert Bowman Jr. critically examines the movement's origins and teachings, distinguishing acceptable Pentecostal practices from distorted offshoots. He insists that the word of faith movement is "neither soundly orthodox nor thoroughly heretical" and encourages charismatic believers to pursue a rich, mature, and biblically sound Pentecostalism.

Not only does The Word-Faith Controversy examine the founders and the message of the movement, it goes beyond the health and wealth promise to uncover what have become the most controversial aspects--what the movement's teachings on faith, words, and confession imply about God, Jesus Christ, human beings, and the nature of the Christian life.