![]() ![]() There’s shock and denial, anger and bargaining… she’s doesn’t describe them in such a way, but there it is. However, when Kate Bowler is smitten with cancer at the age of thirty-five, she finds herself confronted with the opposing logic: if you do not get what you want, there is something wrong with you and/or your faith.īowler takes us on a walk with her through, essentially, the stages of grief. In short: if you want it, you can have it, if your devotion to God is sufficient. ![]() This book follows quite naturally, though obviously unanticipatedly, on her book Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which describes the history of televangelism and the teachings of prosperity. In her new book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved (Random House, 2018), divinity professor Kate Bowler writes openly about her own confrontation with death. If you’ve been on the receiving end of this statement (and who among us has not been?) you’re aware that it can feel, in turn, as a much-needed call for perspective and as a hollow and impotent dismissal. ![]() It is a loaded phrase, both generically vague and universally meaningful: Everything happens for a reason. Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (Random House, 2018) ![]()
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