Emma curtis hopkins biography of william hill

Emma Curtis Hopkins was an early leader in the New Thought movement.

Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) is recognised as the primary founder of the New Thought movement, an American new religious movement that arose in the late 19.

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During the many years of the active ministry of Emma Curtis Hopkins, over fifty thousand individuals came to her for instruction.

Emma Curtis Hopkins, the author of "High Mysticism" and "Scientific Christian Mental Practice" was a student of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, who.

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Hopkins, Emma Curtis (1849-1925)

Emma Curtis Hopkins, founder of the popular metaphysical movement known as New Thought, was born September 2, 1849, in Killingly, Connecticut, of an old New England family.

She received a good education and became a schoolteacher. Attracted by reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook, she traveled to Boston in 1883 to attend a class under Mary Baker Eddy. She established herself as a practitioner and the following year was made editor of the Christian Science Journal. However, by fall 1885, Hopkins and Eddy were in conflict over several of Hopkins's ideas, including her opinion that Christian Science was not so much a new revelation as it was a new expression of a perennial philosophy that had been stated many times previously.

Late in 1885 Hopkins moved to Chicago and established an independent Christian Science practitioner's office.

The next year, in spite of her never having taken the advanc