New Thought

English

Proper noun

New Thought

1. A spiritual movement, sometimes classed as a Christian denomination, promoting the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.

   Synonym: Higher Thought

   • 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] ‎^[1]:

     The ordinary Christian will read the claims of the New Thought fakers with contempt; but have I not shown the Catholic Church publishing long lists of money-miracles?

Derived terms

• New Thoughter
• New Thoughtist

See also

• new political thinking