Theosophy And New Thought Henry Clay Sheldon by Henry Clay Sheldon instant download after payment.

Much of 21st Century Evangelical Christianity was known a hundred years ago as “New Thought”. Prof. Sheldon writes:

“The conception of Christ characteristic of New Thought is purely humanitarian… He may be characterized as a God-man, but not as the God-man… There is no ground whatever for believing that his personality differed from that of other men. He stands before us as the moral ideal, and fulfills the office of Saviour by example. Even in his miracles he is not apart from us. The so-called miracles were perfectly conformable to law, and indicate the kind of equipment any man might use if he would but enter upon his full inheritance.”

This book makes the important connection between the ideas of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy and Evangelicalism.

Henry Clay Sheldon (1845-1928) was educated at Yale University and Leipzig University. Early in his career he served (Methodist) pastorates in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Brunswick, Maine. From 1875-1921 he was Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston University. Prof. Sheldon was particularly critical of Theosophy and New Thought. His books include:

• The History of the Christian Church (2 vols.)


• The History of Christian Doctrine (5 vols.)


• Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical History


• Christian Science So-Called


• A Fourfold Test of Mormonism


• Studies in Recent Adventism


• Theosophy and New Thought


• The Mystery Religions and the New Testament


• Pantheistic Dilemmas and Other Essays in Philosophy and Religion


• The Essentials of Christianity

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