Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb
Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (June 26, 1840 – April 15, 1895)[1] was an American genealogist and writer.
Titcomb was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She took interest in genealogy and was the author of Early New England People (1882).[2]
Titcomb was an advocate of what was known in the 19th century as the "mind cure".[3][4] She wrote the book Mind-Cure on a Material Basis (1885). Titcomb believed that disease could be caused and cured by imagination and the mind. According to Titcomb the success of the cure or of any kind of prayer was based on the concentration of thought and not to any underlying theology.[5][6] Her theories outlined in the book received criticism from theologians Mary Baker Eddy[7] and James Henry Wiggin.[8]
She also wrote Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions (1889), a book on comparative religion and solar myths.[9] Titcomb was a proponent of the Christ Myth theory, according to a review of her book she held the view that Jesus Christ was a personification of a solar deity.[9]
Publications[]
- Early New England People (1882)
- Mind-Cure on a Material Basis (1885)
- Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions (1889) [with an introduction by Charles Morris]
References[]
- ^ Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb. find a grave.
- ^ Anonymous. (1896). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1896, Volume L. Boston. p. 384. Republished by Heritage Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7884-0865-8
- ^ A. M. (1885). The Mind-Cure. Science 6 (150): 543-544.
- ^ Anonymous. (1886). Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. British Journal of Psychiatry 32 (139): 409-411.
- ^ Anonymous. (1884). Titcomb (Sarah E.) Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record. p. 12. "The mind-cure receives an extended examination, with the conclusion that its success is due to concentration of thought, and not to the theology of the Christian scientists."
- ^ Anonymous. (1886). Mind-Cure on a Material Basis. By Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb. Popular Science Monthly 28: 417.
- ^ Eddy, Mary Baker. (1896). Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896. Boston. pp. 62-63.
- ^ "Phare Pleigh". "Mind-Cure on a Material Basis". March 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Anonymous. (1890). Aryan Sun-Myths the Origin of Religions. The Open Court 4: 2555.
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