Ah, I see. By the way, didn’t Prosperity Theology have a predecessor somewhere around Reformation? I have a vague memory that some offshoot of Calvinism was explicitly treating wealth and worldly success as signs of God’s favor and so were an indicator of being predestined to be saved...
Ah, I see. By the way, didn’t Prosperity Theology have a predecessor somewhere around Reformation? I have a vague memory that some offshoot of Calvinism was explicitly treating wealth and worldly success as signs of God’s favor and so were an indicator of being predestined to be saved...
I’m not familiar with it, nor is it mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but it’s a plausible story.