contributed in this direction, stems "from a unique grasp of the radiant, universal force of the Redeemer's grace." He later called Escriva "one of Christianity's great witnesses." Relation with "materialistic values" The term "materialistic" is also used pejoratively in the sense of "economic" materialism. Rowan Williams, in a lecture to Welsh Centre for International Affairs, asserts that Prosperity theology which has been criticised as "materialistic". Prosperity theology in the eyes of Simon Coleman (anthropologist) and Kate Bowler (2013) is influenced by New Thought. New Thought, to William James, has roots in idealist rather than materialist ontology. List Christianity and dialectical materialism Denys Turner, Catholic theologian and Marxist who remarked that the hylomorphism of Thomas Aquinas had materialistic traits and asserted "strong compatibility" between Marxist materialism and Christian Theism. Unlike many contemporary materialists, he uses 'materialism' to argue for, rather than against, the resurrection and immortality of the body. He is an Opus Dei member himself. Y. T. Wu and much of Sino-Christian theology Marxism and religion#Communism and Christianity Liberation theology, as claimed by Pope Benedict XVI Slavoj Žižek Ontological-materialist Christian philosophers espousing Mechanism (philosophy) or Mechanical philosophy Thomas Hobbes Pierre Gassendi Non-Nicene writers Joseph Priestley and Dissent Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, taught: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter." This spirit element is believed to always have existed and to be co-eternal with God. Parley P. Pratt stated that "God, the father is material. Jesus Christ is material. Angels are material. Spirits are material. Men are material. The universe is material ... Nothing exists which is not material." See also Christian mortalism Christoplatonism Holism Hylotheism Impanation "Incarnational humanism" William Montgomery Brown Teleomechanistic idealism (Hermann Lotze) References External links https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-monstrosity-of-christ-paradox-or-dialectic/ Materialism Christian philosophy Christian anthropology Opus Dei