New Thought

New Thought is a spiritual movement that emerged in the 19th-century United States, teaching that thought and belief shape health, circumstances, and spiritual experience.

Phineas Quimby: A 19th-century American healer whose ideas linked illness to mistaken beliefs and influenced New Thought. His mental-healing practice helped shape the movement’s account of illness and belief.
Mind–body problem: The philosophical question of how mental states relate to the body and physical events. New Thought answers this question by assigning thought a formative role in bodily life.
Mental healing: The practice of seeking physical or emotional healing through mental or spiritual means. It is the central practical expression of New Thought’s belief in thought’s effect on health.
Christian Science: A Christian healing religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy in the 19th century. It shares mental-healing roots with New Thought but has a distinct theology and church organization.
Unity Church: A New Thought Christian denomination founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in the United States. It became one of the movement’s enduring institutions and expresses its healing-centered spirituality.
Mary Baker Eddy: The founder of Christian Science, a healing religion that developed amid 19th-century mental-healing currents. Her work emerged from the same healing milieu, while developing a distinct theology.
Idealism: A family of philosophical views that gives mind or ideas fundamental status in reality. New Thought’s account of spiritual reality often treats mind as more fundamental than matter.
Law of attraction: The belief that thoughts or feelings draw corresponding experiences into a person’s life. This popular modern teaching echoes New Thought’s claims about thought shaping circumstances.
Prosperity theology: A Christian teaching that associates faith with material well-being and divine favor. It resembles New Thought’s focus on belief and circumstances but arises within different Christian frameworks.
Religious Science: A New Thought tradition founded by Ernest Holmes and also known as the Science of Mind. Holmes systematized New Thought ideas into a distinct movement and teaching tradition.

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