How Positive Thinking, Prosperity Gospel Define Donald Trumps Faith Outlook NPR. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a Sunday service at First Christian Church Council Bluffs, Iowa in January. Jae C. HongAP. Jae C. HongAP. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a Sunday service at First Christian Church Council Bluffs, Iowa in January. Jae C. HongAP. Editors note Both major presidential candidates this year are Protestants. Both of their running mates were raised as Catholics. Beyond that, their faith profiles are very different. AG2qy_zLLYQpLMR4c2OIhGcMF1cn0z9qpWLV_Oy3nZ-9ZuBYhDkocxwr4OOzMQ_c5i8Xg=w1200-h630-p' alt='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' title='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' />We dug into the faiths of the Republican candidates below and of the Democratic ticket here. In his speech to the Republican convention, Donald Trump thanked the evangelical and religious community for supporting his candidacy, but then added, Im not sure I totally deserve it. Trump does not often express humility, but in this case he seemed to be acknowledging a fairly obvious point. The Pew Research Centers January 2. Americans views of their presidential candidates found only 3. Trump as very or somewhat religious. Sixty percent said Trump was not too or not at all religious. No candidate, Republican or Democrat, had a lower religiosity score. He has said a Bible his mother gave him as a youngster is very special to me. However, Trump faced criticism after he would not identify a favorite scriptural passage when asked to do so. I dont want to get into specifics, he said. He does not claim to be especially devout and once told an interviewer he couldnt remember ever asking for forgiveness. In spite of those apparent religious shortcomings, however, it is not quite true that Trump lacks a personal faith tradition. He was baptized and confirmed at a Presbyterian church in the Queens neighborhood where he grew up. Later, his parents joined Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan. HNczrbDSLd0/WGd30F6KGkI/AAAAAAAARLk/xH8-_7smomI6uufqW4N_m_m0v4mq-qaugCEw/s1600/Masbat-Soch-Ki-Taqat-2.gif' alt='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' title='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' />The pastor there was Norman Vincent Peale, and its the church Trump came to call his own. I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church, Trump told the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa last year. Norman Vincent Peale, the great Norman Vincent Peale, was my pastor. He was so great. And what he would do is, hed bring real life situations, modern day situations, into the sermon. And you could listen to him all day long. Pt Sans Pro Extra Cond Bold. Peale was in fact one of the most famous Christian preachers of the 2. He regularly sprinkled his sermons with anecdotes about prominent industrialists he had known and respected, from the president of the Ralston Purina Company to the founder of Kraft Foods. Being a merchant isnt getting money, he preached. Being a merchant is serving the peopleIn his book, The Power of Positive Thinking, and in his preaching, Peale promoted a faith message that appealed to Donald Trump. He defined success pretty broadly, so it partly included material success. God didnt want people to be poor. Historian Michael Hamilton on Trump family pastor Norman Vincent PealePeale got very interested in the notion that the Gospel could unleash power, that having a divine relationship with God could unleash power within a person for success, says Michael Hamilton, a historian of American Christianity at Seattle Pacific University. And he defined success pretty broadly, so it partly included material success. God didnt want people to be poor. Among the businessmen Peale welcomed to his church was Donald Trumps father, Fred Trump, a New York real estate developer. When he went into church on Sunday, Hamilton says, Fred Trump would hear his minister telling him stories about if you have positive thinking, if youre faithful, if youre upholding your family and your community, then thats what unleashes the power thats made you successful. Peale, who died in 1. His message was more practical than theological. It echoes today in whats known as the Prosperity Gospel, practiced by megachurch televangelists who favor spectacle and say God chooses to reward some people with material wealth. Donald Trump, drawn to Norman Vincent Peale in his younger days, now surrounds himself with prosperity preachers. Paula White a tremendous person, tremendous woman, Mark Burns I dont know if youve watched him on television and Darrell Scott phenomenal guy were among those with Trump in June when he spoke to a Faith and Freedom conference in Washington, D. C. If Trump felt he needed to demonstrate still more religiosity, he may have relieved it with his choice of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Im a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican in that order, Pence said as he accepted the vice presidential nomination. Its a phrase hes used to describe himself before his religious convictions have been a hallmark of his career. His own faith story is intriguing. Raised in an Irish Catholic household, Pence was an altar boy at his local church and went to a parochial school. As a member of a non denominational Christian youth group at college, he had a conversion experience. By 1. 99. 4, he was describing himself as a born again evangelical Catholic. The label confused some theologians who focus on the differences between Catholicism and evangelical Christianity, but other Christians understood what he meant. Born again comes from the Bible, said Kirsten Powers, a USA Today columnist and Fox News commentator who had her own conversion experience about 1. XjMuToPiJ2c/VswF3-oG7hI/AAAAAAAAMU4/24Ccl_8minY/s1600/elpoderdelpensamiento.jpg' alt='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' title='Peale Norman Vincent Pdf' />Its a phrase Jesus used. A former Democratic Party activist who worked for President Bill Clinton, Powers joined the Catholic church last year. Catholic or evangelical or mainline Protestant, any of these people could be born again, she says. If somebody said to me, Im an evangelical Catholic or Im a born again Catholic, it would be them saying Im a sincere Christian. I read the Bible. My life has been transformed. Trump himself has never claimed to be transformed or born again. But that may not matter, if he outsources the responsibility for religious outreach to his running mate. As Indiana governor, Mike Pence bolstered his conservative credentials by signing a religious liberty law to protect business people critics said it would allow them to discriminate against gays and lesbians. If Pence now says Trump is a good man, that may be enough for voters who care about their candidates faith. TEXTBOOK DREAMS OF A FINAL THEORY THE SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE LAWS OF NATURE BY STEVEN WEINBERG PDF EBOOKS abigail and john adams by abigail adams your. Editor MWBro Robert E. Juthner February 2007 Vol. No. 2 Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking By Robert Morris, in MSA STB Vol. No. 10. Top 100 Most Motivational Quotes of All Time 1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle 2. Chapter 1 Introduction to Public Speaking www. According to the Association of American Colleges and. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JAMES ALLEN 18641912 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. 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