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Two of the most influential doctrines that emerged out of that context were Mental Science of Warren Felt Evans (1817-1887) and Christian Science of Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910). In the late 19th and early 20th century these ideas of Quimby spawned multiple teachings sharing similar principles. I use no medicines of any kind, and make no applications. This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish the Truth, and the Truth is the cure. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy, and restore you to your health and happiness. Therefore if your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. In either case the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in, and we put a value on it according to its worth. If the mind should be directed to any particular organ, that organ might become deranged or might not. In a manuscript called Christ or Science, Quimby attempted to explain his theory:Īll effects produced on the human frame are the result of a chemical change of the fluids with or without our knowledge, and all the varieties and changes are accompanied by a peculiar state of mind. Quimby taught that illness originates in the mind as a result of erroneous beliefs and that a mind open to God’s wisdom is able to overcome any illness. The Positive Confession doctrine is rooted in the ideas of a 19th-century North American healer and mesmerist Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866). But the former is rather metaphysical in nature and purports to exploit and change the material universe by using objective “spiritual laws.” The latter, on the other hand, is rather psychological in nature - it says we should renounce the traditional ideas of sin and repentance and pursue only the ideas that stimulate our self-worth, our positive self-image. Both identify the objective good with whatever is good for us humans subjectively. Both teachings are anthropocentric, effectively portraying man as the focal point of the universe, around which everything revolves. The Positive Confession doctrine should be distinguished from a somewhat similar idea called Positive Thought (Possibility Thinking) as represented by the likes of Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. Somewhat greater, but still minimal, organization exists among those who attend occult lectures, frequent occult bookstores, or take part in informal discussion groups on occult topics.” One important aspect of such loose organization is that every participant decides for themselves which parts of the teaching he or she will accept or ignore and how deeply he or she will dig into it. The WFM does include a number of churches, associations and ministries, but organizationally it is best described as an audience cult: “… the great majority of persons who take part in audience cults do so entirely through the mass media: books, magazines, newspapers, TV, astrology columns and the like.
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To be sure, there is a core of characteristic beliefs shared by most Word of Faith teachers (including the doctrine of positive confession), but other than that every teacher is free to enhance this common core with any number of more or less bizarre ideas. It can be described as a “theological milieu” loosely built upon the ideas of the late Kenneth Erwin Hagin (1917-2003). There is no common creed or a comprehensive theological text. The WFM is not to be identified unconditionally with the Charismatic Movement: although this doctrine has always been quite popular among Charismatics, not all Charismatics entertain beliefs associated with WFM and WFM ideas have a sizeable following outside Charismatic circles as well. In this article, we will consider one particular tenet of this movement as reflected by yet another name for the movement: Positive Confession.īefore we delve into our topic, a few caveats are in order:
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The WFM and its teachings goes by many names, reflecting its various aspects: Name-It-And-Claim-It, Full Gospel, Health and Wealth, Prosperity Gospel etc. Though not a fully organized cult like the Mormon Church or the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, this movement is by no means orthodox, discreetly substituting historic Christian theology with ideas borrowed from elsewhere. The Word of Faith Movement (WFM) is a relatively recent phenomenon that has emerged in the second half of the 20th century, but it depends heavily upon metaphysical theories developed by a number of non-Christian thinkers and spiritual teachers in the late 1900’s.
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