The Gospel Betrayed

Somewhere along the way, a faith founded on the renunciation of wealth and power became, for millions, a vehicle for acquiring both. The Gospel Betrayed traces how that reversal happened — and who it served.

This is a critical history of two movements that have reshaped American Christianity: the prosperity gospel, which promised that God rewards belief with money, and the political faith that fused the cross with national power. Pereira follows the money, the theology, and the rhetoric, showing how each borrowed authority from a tradition it had quietly turned inside out.

Rigorous and pointed, the book takes scripture seriously enough to ask what was lost when it was put to work. It is a reckoning written not from outside the faith but from within its own claims — and all the sharper for it.