Word of Faith movement
A living tradition within Charismatic movement. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Word of Faith movement is a living tradition within Charismatic movement. Also written prosperity gospel (in part), faith movement.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Kenneth E. Hagin. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Associated above all with Kenneth E. Hagin (1917-2003), commonly called the father of the movement, whose teaching on faith, healing and positive confession drew on E. W. Kenyon and spread from the 1960s; it became globally influential in Latin America, Africa and Asia. No founding year is given.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Word of Faith movement.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-word-of-faith-movement.
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title = {Word of Faith movement},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.