New Thought, or A Modern Religious Approach: The Philosophy of Health, Happiness, and Prosperity
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The renowned historian examines the evolution of the New Thought Movement from its eighteenth-century European roots to twentieth-century America.
In this enlightening study, Martin A. Larson presents New Thought as a rebellion against the conventional dogmas of Western religion. He begins with an in-depth look at the work of Emanuel Swedenborg, the philosopher and Christian mystic who was compelled to publish his theological writing anonymously outside his native Sweden.
In the United States, however, the Shakers and their predecessors were able to avoid persecution despite setting forth a complete repudiation of traditional Christian doctrine. They achieved this by accepting the Bible as divine revelation while denying its literal meaning. Through the process of Spiritual Interpretation, they supplanted orthodox religion with a totally new system of faith and belief.
This work is dedicated to all those seeking truth in a religion that meets the needs of modern life. The author pays special tribute to such forerunners as Michael Servetus, Emanuel Swedenborg, Phineas Quimby, Warren Felt Evans, Horatio W. Dresser, Ralph Waldo Trine, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Charles Fillmore, Ernest S. Holmes, Thomas Troward, Joseph Murphy, and a host of others who have contributed to the movement known as New Thought, a philosophy of health, happiness, and prosperity.
- Title: New Thought, or A Modern Religious Approach: The Philosophy of Health, Happiness, and Prosperity
- Author: Martin Alfred Larson
- Publisher: Philosophical Library/Open Road
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781504081276, 1504081277
- Resource ID: LLS:9781504081276
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-26T18:34:54Z
Martin A. Larson was an American historical revisionist and freethinker. He specialized in the history of Christianity and wrote on its origins and early theological history, best known for his assertion that Jesus Christ and John the Baptist were Essenes. Larson was originally from a fundamentalist Christian Evangelical background but left the faith when he was about twenty years old. Following service in the US Navy, he graduated from Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and then University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in English literature in 1927 with a thesis on the unorthodoxies of Milton, whom he found to have rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. He retired from a career in business at the age of fifty to devote himself to private study, lecturing, and writing.