Word Faith

Many Christians follow the Word Faith movement in terms of ethics. One of my students in the Apologetics modular program asked me about the movement in an email. The Word Faith theology comes out of the ministry of Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland, two very influential Pentecostal leaders. It is often referred to as the Health and Wealth gospel or the Name It and Claim It movement.

I realized when I wrote my email reply that I do not have an entry on that topic in my Religions A to Z book. I will have one in my bigger volume that comes out next year...Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions. Anyway, Apologetics Index has a listing of resources here.

Note the endorsement given to Robert Bowman on this topic. I agree with Apologetics Index in recommending Rob's work, in particular his book The Word-Faith Controversy: Understanding the Health and Wealth Gospel. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001 . You can see a profile on Rob at the Reclaiming the Mind website here.

Bible searching

Christians base their ethics on Scripture. One of the great free resources on the web allows for searching in many versions of the Bible. Go here for this superb search engine to Scripture.

If you want to access a site that searches in the Greek text of the NT, go to the various options listed at The Greek New Testament Gateway

Terrorism websites

I recommend the following websites for analysis of the world of terrorism and counter-terrorism.

http://counterterrorismblog.org/

http://www.douglasfarah.com/

http://www.ict.org.il/

http://internet-haganah.com/haganah/index.html

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/intrel/research/cstpv/

http://www.terrorism.com/index.php

See important atlas from West Point at http://www.ctc.usma.edu/atlas/default.asp

New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books is one of the most important intellectual resources in the world. Unfortunately, it is not free but if you want to check out some of its contents, go here

Arts and Letters Daily

Since Christian ethics is done in the context of a global community and broad academic input, I urge you to look at Arts and Letters Daily as a great guide to important articles, books, reviews, op-ed pieces, etc. It has an impressive list of links on the main page, including newspapers from around the world.

Happy reading.

Professor Beverley

Professor Beverley (in middle) with (left to right) son Derek, wife Gloria, daughter Andrea and son-in-law Julien