People in the History of New Thought

Question 1

Give a statement identifying Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.

Answer 1

Founder of New Thought

Question 2

Give a statement identifying Mary Baker Eddy.

Answer 2

Founder of Christian Science

Question 3

Give a statement identifying Charles and Myrtle Fillmore.

Answer 3

Founders of Unity

Question 4

Give a statement identifying Emma Curtis Hopkins.

Answer 4

Teacher of teachers: taught or influenced the founders of the main New Thought teachings.

Question 5

Give a statement identifying Ernest Holmes.

Answer 5

• Founder of Science of Mind
• Wrote the Science of Mind textbook and many other books.
• Student of Emma Curtis Hopkins.

Question 6

Give a statement identifying Emilie Cady

Answer 6

• Wrote Unity’s ‘Lessons in Truth’, more devotional than technical, for meditative purposes.
• Student of Emma Curtis Hopkins

Question 7

Give a statement identifying Thomas Troward.

Answer 7

• Influenced Ernest Holmes on the Law.

- Wrote the Edinburgh Lectures on mental science.

Question 8

Give a statement identifying Nona Brooks.

Answer 8

Founder of Divine Science with her sisters, Althea and Linda Kramer.

Question 9

Give a statement identifying Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Answer 9

• A major influence on Ernest Holmes’ spirituality.

- Wrote Self Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, and other essays.