Twentieth-century Pentecostal-charismatic theological movement teaching that believers possess divine-like creative authority over their circumstances by speaking words of faith, and that positive confession releases God's blessing while negative confession blocks it. Rooted in the metaphysical-occult New Thought of E. W. Kenyon (heavily influenced by Mary Baker Eddy and Phineas Quimby), systematized by Kenneth E. Hagin, popularized by Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, and the broader prosperity-gospel circuit. The movement's core doctrines are doctrinally serious. (1) Little gods theology: believers are little gods who possess the same creative power as God Himself (Kenneth Copeland: You don't have a god in you, you are one). (2) Positive confession: words spoken in faith literally create physical reality; sickness, poverty, and trouble come from negative confession. (3) Health-and-wealth: it is always God's will to heal and prosper His people materially; suffering, sickness, and financial difficulty signal lack of faith. (4) Spiritual death of Christ: Christ died spiritually as well as physically, going to hell and being tortured by Satan, before being born again by the Father. The Reformed-confessional and orthodox-evangelical response is comprehensive rejection. The Word-Faith doctrines are not biblical Christianity but a heretical fusion of metaphysical New Thought with Pentecostal forms; the little gods teaching is straightforward idolatry; the positive-confession doctrine misreads biblical faith as creative speech-act; the health-and-wealth distortion contradicts the NT teaching that suffering is integral to discipleship (Romans 8:17; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 1:2-4); the spiritual-death-of-Christ doctrine flatly contradicts the NT teaching that Christ's physical death and shed blood accomplished the atonement (Hebrews 9:22-28; 10:10-14). The patriarchal-Reformed reader recognizes the Word-Faith movement as the largest and most damaging false-gospel movement in the contemporary global church.