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The Therapeutic Gospel Revisited

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Michael Foster
Aug 31, 2024
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What passes for Christianity these days is therapeutic nonsense with a gloss of Christian terminology.

For example, It is interesting to see how David Powlison's 2010 summary of the therapeutic mindset has already mutated into something worse.

The five tenets he listed are:

1. I want to feel loved for who I am, to be pitied for what I’ve gone through, to f…

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