Teach Us to Pray

Fillmore, Cora, Fillmore, Charles

ISBN 10: 0871592037 / ISBN 13: 9780871592033

Published by Unity School of Christianity, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teach Us to Pray
• Publisher: Unity School of Christianity
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871592037
• ISBN 13: 9780871592033
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The New Thought Movement or New Thought is a loosely allied group of organizations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of metaphysical beliefs concerning healing, life force, Creative Visualization, and personal power. The New Thought Movement developed in the United States during the mid to late 19th century and continues to the present time. It promotes the ideas that God is all powerful and ubiquitous, Spirit is the totality of all things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, most sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About the Author

Charles Fillmore (1854 - 1948)
Charles Fillmore (August 22, 1854 - July 5, 1948), born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, founded Unity, a church within the New Thought movement, with his wife, Myrtle Page Fillmore, in 1889. He became known as an American mystic for his contributions to metaphysical interpretations of Biblical scripture.

In a pamphlet called "Answers to Your Questions About Unity" , poet James Dillet Freeman says that Charles and Myrtle both had health problems and turned to some new ideas which they believed helped to improve these problems. Their beliefs are centered around two basic propositions: God is good. God is available; in fact, God is in you. The pamphlet goes on to say that:

About a year after the Fillmore's started the magazine Modern Thought, they had the inspiration that if God is what they thought - the principle of love and intelligence, the source of all good - God is wherever needed. It was not necessary for people to be in the same room with them in order for them to unite in thought and prayer.

In his later years, Fillmore felt so young that he thought th

About the Author

Charles Fillmore was an innovative thinker, a pioneer in metaphysical thought at a time when most religious thought in America was entirely orthodox. He was a lifelong advocate of the open, inquiring mind, and he took pride in keeping abreast of the latest scientific and educational discoveries and theories.

Cora Dedrick Fillmore, an ordained Unity minister, married Charles in 1933. In addition to Christ Enthroned in Man, she also compiled two books from the writings of Charles Fllmore, Keep a True Lent and Atom-Smashing Power of Mind.