Importing Faith: The Effect of American "Word of Faith" Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism - Softcover

Glyn Ackerley is Director of Ordinands in the Diocese of Rochester, England. He is also Vicar of Shorne, Kent. He was ordained in 1987 and was Vicar of St. Philip & St. James, Walderslade from 1994 to 2009. He has wide experience of charismatic renewal.

''In this highly readable book, Glyn Ackerley introduces us to the 'Health, Wealth and Prosperity Movement' (HWPM)--sometimes known as the 'Name It and Claim It' churches. Dr. Ackerley's carefully researched monograph arises out of his doctoral study, and his thesis is a measured and sober assessment. In so doing, Ackerley offers a sharp critique of abusive religious thinking and practice. I warmly commend his work.''
--Martyn Percy, Dean, Christ Church College, Oxford University

''Christians tend to accept the religious phenomena of their age without thinking too deeply of how and why things are as they are. In this sense they fail to see the cultural and practical factors that are imported along with religious experience. In a study that is sympathetic, critical, and scholarly, Ackerley here engages in just such an analysis of popular ministries active in the British context and manages both to appreciate their value and to identify their cultural indebtedness.''
--Nigel G. Wright, Principal Emeritus, Spurgeon's College, London

''What makes this book very special is Glyn Ackerley himself. His pastoral concern for 'refugees' who had been damaged spiritually--and sometimes financially--and had landed up in his parish was his primary motivation for exposing the sub-Christian theology and practice of the Neo-Gnostic subcultures that in the name of Christianity peddle a different gospel . . . [T]his is a daring book written by a brave man.''
--Andrew Walker, Professor of Theology and Education, Kings College, London --Wipf and Stock Publishers