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A course in Theology
The people who built theology as we practise it, in the order they arrived.
Adi Shankara
700 – 750Systematised Advaita Vedanta and reorganised Hindu monasticism.
Al-Ghazali
1058 – 1111Reoriented Islamic thought toward inwardness and challenged the philosophers on their own ground.
Søren Kierkegaard
1813 – 1855First existentialist; wrote on anxiety, despair and the leap of faith.
Myrtle Fillmore
1845 – 1931Her recovery from tuberculosis through affirmative prayer began the Unity movement.
Charles Fillmore
1854 – 1948Co-founded Unity with Myrtle Fillmore in 1889; built its prayer ministry and publishing house.
Nona Brooks
1861 – 1945Co-founded Divine Science and its Denver college of practitioners.
Emmet Fox
1886 – 1951Filled New York auditoriums in the Depression; his writing shaped early Alcoholics Anonymous.
Norman Vincent Peale
1898 – 1993The Power of Positive Thinking sold tens of millions and mainstreamed the movement.
Simone Weil
1909 – 1943Wrote on attention, affliction and rootedness while working the factory floor.
Michael Beckwith
b. 1956Founded Agape International and carried New Thought to a global multiracial audience.