ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, I explored pneumatology, a defining motif within African Caribbean Christianity (Pentecostalism). Another important theme is finance. In this chapter, I want to dub ‘prosperity doctrine’. To this end, I will begin with a brief discussion of the status quo regarding giving in African Caribbean Pentecostal churches. I will deconstruct the key elements of prosperity doctrine and make use of the experience of a ‘complex poverty’ faced by Black people in Britain to frame the emancipation ethic. I will then reconstruct prosperity to produce a new praxis that I term ‘commonwealth’.
