单词 | new thought |
释义 | New Thoughtn. A theory of therapeutic practice advocating healing through hypnosis, positive suggestion, and prayer, and hence the realization of an essential spiritual reality (formulated by Phineas P. Quimby (1802–66) of Portland, Maine, United States). Also: a religious movement founded by Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), believing in the guidance of an inner presence according to the principles of Quimby. Cf. Christian Science n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > religious Christian Science1875 Higher Thought1878 science1878 New Thought1887 society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > new thought > [noun] Higher Thought1878 New Thought1887 1887 W. H. Holcombe Condensed Thoughts Christian Sci. (ed. 4) 45 New thought always excites combat in the mind with the old thought, which refuses to retire. 1892 P. Mulford Your Forces & how to use Them 4 New thought is healthy stimulation and also a necessary food to a more perfected life. 1899 H. W. Dresser Voices of Freedom ii. 22 The term ‘New Thought’, now the accepted appellation of a doctrine which has differentiated itself from..mental science..and become the representative teaching of those who..are not worshippers of personality, are not bound to certain books, but remain independent. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 94 A current..has recently poured over America..to which..I will give the title of the ‘Mind-cure movement’. There are various sects of this ‘New Thought’, to use another of the names by which it calls itself. 1942 A. Huxley Let. 30 Dec. (1969) 485 The strengthening and extension of such religions as Christian Science, Theosophy, New Thought, ‘I Am’, in which the stress is wholly on powers, personal advantages and future time. 1983 Amer. Hist. Rev. 88 1065/2 Quimby expanded mesmerism into a general ‘philosophy of life’, but in the late nineteenth century ‘New Thought’ diluted it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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