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Book Review: The Continuity of Christian Doctrine

First, there were the promoters of "mind cures," Phineas P. Quimby, Mary Baker Eddy, and the "Unity School" of Charles Fillmore. They provided a response to new or pseudomedicine by linking Bible teaching with "scientific" theory as ex­ perienced through right thinking. Second, individualism in business and politics enhanced optimism about human potential. Third, mainline denominations and liberal religionists were increasingly unable to provide acceptable response to the questions of industrialization, wealth, and individualism which many business professionals were asking. Fourth, the growing concern for success and the need for an ethic, a theology, to explain it made the "health/wealth" gospel appealing to many American, middle-class citizens. These and other forces were significant in the rise of the "positive thinkers" in America.