Thanks NotmebutHim. I'm not out to convert anybody to WoF. I just don't want people to misjudge it based on what some misguided teacher or apologist says. Whatever you decide needs to be based in facts, not rhetoric.
As for E. W. Kenyon, I don't agree with everything he taught and neither did Kenneth Hagin for that matter, but if you'll read McIntyre's book on Kenyon it will really give you some insight into what he was all about. He was saved in a Holiness meeting in the late 19th century, and elements of the Holiness movement (Faith Cure and Higher Life) were the main influences on his theology.
As for the WoF movement itself, people use the terms "Word of Faith", "Prosperity Gospel", and "Name it and Claim it" interchangeably and link everybody together who seems to identify with it. For example, Benny Hinn is often called a prosperity preacher or linked to the WoF, but he renounced WoF theology in 1993 in a Charisma interview. Others who consider themselves WoF are teaching things that Kenneth Hagin never taught and that I never heard at his school, and in my opinion these people are making a total mess of his message. I have the advantage of having studied there before the McConnells and the Hanegraaffs and the Hortons emerged, and because of that I am able to see through the misinformation. Y
ou can see more of my work here.
God bless you as you walk in the light of His Word.