Emma Curtis Hopkins | |
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 Portrait of Emma Curtis Hopkins from High Mysticism. | |
| Born | Josephine Emma Curtis September 2, 1849 |
| Died | April 8, 1925 (aged 75) Killingly, Connecticut |
| Occupation | New Thought teacher |
| Known for | Founder of New Thought |
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Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (September 2, 1849 – April 8, 1925) was an American spiritual teacher and leader. She was involved in organizing the New Thought movement and was a theologian, teacher, writer, feminist, mystic, and healer; who taught and ordained hundreds of people, including notably many women. Hopkins was called the "teacher of teachers" and "mother of New Thought" because a number of her students went on to found their own churches or to become prominent in the New Thought Movement, including Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, founders of Unity Church; Ernest Holmes; and H. Emilie Cady, author of Unity's cornerstone text Lessons in Truth. According to Charles S. Braden, Hopkins influenced the development of New Thought "more than any other single teacher",[1] and modern scholars have identified Hopkins as the founder of New Thought.[2]
- ^ Braden 1963, p. 140.
- ^ Michell 2002, p. 7.