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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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Thomas Troward
1847 – 1916Indian-service judge whose Edinburgh Lectures gave New Thought a systematic metaphysics.
United Kingdom·New Thought · Philosophy
James Allen
1864 – 1912Wrote As a Man Thinketh, the movement's most reprinted book.
United Kingdom·New Thought · Literature
Emmet Fox
1886 – 1951Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.
Ireland·New Thought · Theology
Joseph Murphy
1898 – 1981Recast affirmation as subconscious programming for a postwar readership.
Ireland·New Thought · Psychology