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<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">2008</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">年</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">11</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">月アルカディア課題 会場:大向区民会館 和室</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">2</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">号 </span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">①~⑤のできるところまで訳してください。</span></p>
<p> </p>
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<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">①『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Has the so-called</span>
<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1533448,00.html"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">Prosperity gospel</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">turned its
followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of
the current financial crisis? That's what a scholar of the fast-growing brand
of Pentecostal Christianity believes. While researching a book on black
televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of
California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise — that
God will "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had
developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom.
Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages to believe
"God caused the bank to ignore my credit score and blessed me with my first
house." The results, he says, "were disastrous, because they pretty much turned
parishioners into prey for greedy brokers."</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">②『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Others think he may be
right. Says Anthea Butler, an expert in Pentecostalism at the University of
Rochester in New York: "The pastor's not gonna say, 'Go down to</span>
<a href="http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/10/wellswachovia_thats_270_billio.html">
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">Wachovia</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">and get a loan,'
but I have heard, 'Even if you have a poor credit rating, God can still bless
you — if you put some faith out there [that is, make a big donation to the
church], you'll get that house or that car or that apartment.' " Adds J. Lee
Grady, editor of the magazine <em>Charisma:</em> "It definitely goes on, that a
preacher might say, 'If you give this offering, God will give you a house.' And
if they did get the house, people did think that it was an answer to prayer,
when in fact it was really bad banking policy." If so, the situation offers a
look at how a native-born faith built partially on American economic optimism
entered into a toxic symbiosis with a pathological market.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">③『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Although a type of
Pentecostalism, Prosperity theology adds a distinctive layer of supernatural
positive thinking. Adherents will reap rewards if they prove their faith to God
by contributing heavily to their churches, remaining mentally and verbally
upbeat and concentrating on divine promises of worldly bounty supposedly strewn
throughout the Bible. Critics call it a thinly disguised pastor-enrichment
scam. Other experts, like Walton, note that for all its faults, the theology
can empower people who have been taught to see themselves as financially or
even culturally useless to feel they are "worthy of having more and doing more
and being more." In some cases the philosophy has matured with its
practitioners, encouraging good financial habits and
entrepreneurship.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">④『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">But Walton suggests that a
decade's worth of ever easier credit acted like a drug in Prosperity's
bloodstream. "The economic boom '90s and financial overextensions of the new
millennium contributed to the success of the Prosperity message," he wrote
recently on his personal blog as well as on</span> <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">the website Religion
Dispatches</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">. And not positively.
"Narratives of how 'God blessed me with my first house despite my credit' were
common. Sermons declaring 'It's your season to overflow' supplanted messages of
economic sobriety," and "little attention was paid to ... the dangers of using
one's home equity as an ATM to subsidize cars, clothes and
vacations."</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">⑤『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">With the bubble burst,
Walton and Butler assume that Prosperity congregants have taken a
disproportionate hit, and they are curious as to how their churches will
respond.</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Butler</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">thinks some of the flashier
ministries will shrink along with their congregants' fortunes. Says Walton:
"You would think that the current economic conditions would undercut their
theology." But he predicts they will persevere, since God's earthly largesse is
just as attractive when one is behind the economic eight
ball.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;text-indent:10.6pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">A
recent publicly posted testimony by a congregant at the Brownsville Assembly of
God, near</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Pensacola</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">,</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Fla.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">, seems to confirm his
intuition.</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Brownsville</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">is not even a
classic Prosperity congregation — it relies more on the anointing of its
pastors than on Scriptural promises of God. But the believer's note to his
minister illustrates how magical thinking can prevail even after the mortgage
blade has dropped. "Last Sunday," it read, "You said if anyone needed a miracle
to come up. So I did. I was receiving foreclosure papers, so I asked you to
anoint a picture of my home and you did and your wife joined with you in prayer
as I cried. I went home feeling something good was going to happen. On Friday
the 5th of September I got a phone call from my mortgage company and they came
up with a new payment for the next 3 months of only $200. My mortgage is
usually $1,020. Praise God for his Mercy & Grace."</span></div>
<div style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">And pray
that the credit market doesn't tighten any further.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:17pt;"> </div>
<div style="margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:17pt;"> </div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">2008</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">年</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">11</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">月アルカディア課題 会場:大向区民会館 和室</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">2</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">号 </span></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left">
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">①~⑤のできるところまで訳してください。</span></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">①『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Has the
so-called</span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1533448,00.html"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">Prosperity
gospel</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">turned its followers into
some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the current
financial crisis? That's what a scholar of the fast-growing brand of
Pentecostal Christianity believes. While researching a book on black
televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of
California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity's central promise — that
God will "make a way" for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had
developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom.
Walton says that this encouraged congregants who got dicey mortgages to believe
"God caused the bank to ignore my credit score and blessed me with my first
house." The results, he says, "were disastrous, because they pretty much turned
parishioners into prey for greedy brokers."</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></p>
</div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">②『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Others think he may be
right. Says Anthea Butler, an expert in Pentecostalism at the University of
Rochester in New York: "The pastor's not gonna say, 'Go down to</span><a href="http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/10/wellswachovia_thats_270_billio.html"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">Wachovia</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">and
get a loan,' but I have heard, 'Even if you have a poor credit rating, God can
still bless you — if you put some faith out there [that is, make a big donation
to the church], you'll get that house or that car or that apartment.' " Adds J.
Lee Grady, editor of the magazine<em>Charisma:</em>"It definitely goes on, that
a preacher might say, 'If you give this offering, God will give you a house.'
And if they did get the house, people did think that it was an answer to
prayer, when in fact it was really bad banking policy." If so, the situation
offers a look at how a native-born faith built partially on American economic
optimism entered into a toxic symbiosis with a pathological
market.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">③『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Although a type of
Pentecostalism, Prosperity theology adds a distinctive layer of supernatural
positive thinking. Adherents will reap rewards if they prove their faith to God
by contributing heavily to their churches, remaining mentally and verbally
upbeat and concentrating on divine promises of worldly bounty supposedly strewn
throughout the Bible. Critics call it a thinly disguised pastor-enrichment
scam. Other experts, like Walton, note that for all its faults, the theology
can empower people who have been taught to see themselves as financially or
even culturally useless to feel they are "worthy of having more and doing more
and being more." In some cases the philosophy has matured with its
practitioners, encouraging good financial habits and
entrepreneurship.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">④『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">But Walton suggests that a
decade's worth of ever easier credit acted like a drug in Prosperity's
bloodstream. "The economic boom '90s and financial overextensions of the new
millennium contributed to the success of the Prosperity message," he wrote
recently on his personal blog as well as on</span><a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#cc0000;line-height:155%;">the website Religion
Dispatches</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">. And not positively.
"Narratives of how 'God blessed me with my first house despite my credit' were
common. Sermons declaring 'It's your season to overflow' supplanted messages of
economic sobriety," and "little attention was paid to ... the dangers of using
one's home equity as an ATM to subsidize cars, clothes and
vacations."</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></a></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">⑤『</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">With the bubble burst,
Walton and Butler assume that Prosperity congregants have taken a
disproportionate hit, and they are curious as to how their churches will
respond.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Butler</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">thinks some of the
flashier ministries will shrink along with their congregants' fortunes. Says
Walton: "You would think that the current economic conditions would undercut
their theology." But he predicts they will persevere, since God's earthly
largesse is just as attractive when one is behind the economic eight
ball.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">』</span></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;text-indent:10.6pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">A
recent publicly posted testimony by a congregant at the Brownsville Assembly of
God, near</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Pensacola</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Fla.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">,
seems to confirm his intuition.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">Brownsville</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">is
not even a classic Prosperity congregation — it relies more on the anointing of
its pastors than on Scriptural promises of God. But the believer's note to his
minister illustrates how magical thinking can prevail even after the mortgage
blade has dropped. "Last Sunday," it read, "You said if anyone needed a miracle
to come up. So I did. I was receiving foreclosure papers, so I asked you to
anoint a picture of my home and you did and your wife joined with you in prayer
as I cried. I went home feeling something good was going to happen. On Friday
the 5th of September I got a phone call from my mortgage company and they came
up with a new payment for the next 3 months of only $200. My mortgage is
usually $1,020. Praise God for his Mercy & Grace."</span></div>
<div style="background:#ffffff;margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:155%;" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:155%;">And
pray that the credit market doesn't tighten any further.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:17pt;"> </div>
<div style="margin:0mm 0mm 0pt;line-height:17pt;"> </div>