He considered his writings "to be a wonderful new interpretation of the Scriptures, a 'new type of Christianity,' which would bring healing and prosperity to all who possessed his revelation knowledge of the Bible" (McConnell, p. He believed that healing and other ongoing miracles are necessary to demonstrate the reality of Christianity. Like New Thought, Kenyon taught that the spiritual is the cause of all physical effects and that positive confession has the power to create its own reality. Though Kenyon claimed to be opposed to the New Thought cults and though he claimed to derive his teaching strictly from the Bible, there is no question that he incorporated many New Thought ideas into his doctrine. All of these various elements were held together by heavy proof-texting from the Bible and a quasi-Darwinian view of the religious evolution of humanity which ended in man becoming a god" (Ibid., p. Emerson's "religion was a veritable smorgasbord of the sources underlying New Thought metaphysics: Platonism, Swedenborgianism, New England Unitarianism, and Emersonian Transcendentalism. Another graduate wrote the book Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy. One graduate of Emerson compiled The Complete Concordance of the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy. A number of Emerson graduates went on to become prominent Christian Science practitioners. Charles Wesley Emerson, the head of Emerson College, was a Unitarian minister and eventually joined Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science movement. In 1892 Kenyon enrolled in the Emerson College of Oratory, "an institution that was absolutely inundated with metaphysical, cultic ideas and practices" (McConnell, A Different Gospel, p. McConnell masterfully traces this connection in his book A Different Gospel. It is obvious that he borrowed heavily from the latter. In his early years Kenyon was influenced by Methodist sinless perfectionism and by New Thought doctrine. It will be the end of weakness and failure" ( Identification, Seattle: Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1968, p. In his book Identification, he stated: "When these truths really gain the ascendancy in us, they will make us spiritual supermen, masters of demons and disease. He claimed that if his message were followed it would create a master race of Christians who would have complete power over demons and disease. Though he did not use the term "revelation" to describe his teaching, he presented his doctrine as new and history-changing. Kenyon was a Baptist pastor and never joined the Pentecostal movement (though he did move in Pentecostal circles toward the end of his life), but his pioneer radio broadcasts and voluminous writings had broad influence in the Deeper Life and Pentecostal-Charismatic movements. Many more could be cited." Plagiarism is not only deceit it is a criminal offense. This is only a sampling of such plagiarisms. Kenyon are presented as evidence of this charge. The following excerpts of plagiarisms from no less than eight books by E.W. McConnel introduces this section of his book by saying: "Hagin has, indeed, copied word-for-word without documentation from Kenyon's writings. McConnell, in his book A Different Gospel, documents this with pages of comparisons proving beyond question that Hagin plagiarized Kenyon's writings.
He claims that his teaching was given to him by God, but in fact he plagiarized heavily from the writings of E.W.
(1917- ) is one of the most influential Pentecostal leaders today.