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New Thought Movement
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Not to be confused with New Age Movement.
The New Thought Movement describes a set of religious developments that originated in the United States during the late 19th century, inspired by the philosophy of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby from Belfast, Maine. Although Dr. Quimby did not start any movement of his own, he is generally accepted and acknowledged as the father of New Thought.
At least nine religious denominations have emerged from this movement, including Divine Science, Religious Science, the Universal Foundation for Better Living, and the Unity Church, and the Pagan New Thought religion of Huna popularized by Max Freedom Long. Although Mary Baker Eddy was an important figure to many New Thought group founders, the Christian Science with which she was associated developed in a different direction and is not considered a New Thought denomination. After her excommunication from Mary Baker Eddy's church, Emma Curtis Hopkins inspired other personal interpretations.
Overview
New Thought emphasizes the idea of growing or developing thought. The word New stressed the movement's interest in what is novel and progressive. New Thought practitioners hold that as ideas form and spread, they become part of the fabric of human consciousness and human thought is transformed; they accept and even embrace this endless transformation, while simultaneously acknowledging the thread of history and the unfoldment of creative thought.
New Thought religions are a panentheistic belief system, and are often considered more philosophy than religion by adherents. New Thought holds that an immanent presence, often referred to as Mind, Universal Presence, or Life, is the primary basis of all interconnected reality, personal and transcendent. In line with Philosophical Idealism, New Thought professes the primacy of mind in relation to the experience of the physical world, and places great emphasis in positive thinking, affirmations, meditation, and prayer.
New Thought churches often avoid dogmatic pronouncements about the afterlife or other theological questions, and vary significantly in the degree to which they may or may not associate themselves with Christianity or other major world religions. New Thought teaching asserts some distinction from traditional religious movements in that the personal experience and understanding of (God, Presence, Truth) is expected to evolve and not remain static. The majority of New Thought churches display, discuss, and sell a wide variety of religious and New Age literature.
Although New Thought churches are sometimes identified or associated with the New Age movement, New Thought churches typically do not share major tenets of New Age thinking (mostly avoiding any teaching of mysticism or Occultism.
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