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Nona L. Brooks

Nona Lovell Brooks (March 22, 1861 – March 14, 1945), described as a "prophet of modern mystical Christianity",[1] was a leader in the New Thought movement and a founder of the Church of Divine Science.

Nona Lovell Brooks

(1861-03-22)March 22, 1861

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

March 14, 1945(1945-03-14) (aged 83)

Denver, Colorado

American

Minister, author

Co-founder of the Church of Divine Science

Biography[edit]

Brooks was born on March 22, 1861, in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest daughter of Chauncey and Lavinia Brooks.[2] At a fairly early age, her family moved just outside Charleston, West Virginia,[3] where Brooks graduated from the Charleston Female Academy. Due to the collapse of her father's salt mining business, the family moved again, this time to Pueblo, Colorado, where he entered the metal mining business. He died shortly after the move, when Brooks was 19.[3]


In 1890, with the aim of becoming a teacher, Brooks enrolled at Pueblo Normal School, which was followed by a one-year stay at Wellesley College.


In 1887, encouraged by her sister, Althea Brooks Small, Nona Brooks attended classes taught by Kate Bingham, proponent of the New Thought philosophy. While attending these classes, Brooks "found herself healed of a persistent throat infection"[4] and shortly thereafter Brooks and Small began to heal others.[5]

(1924)

Mysteries

The Prayer that Never Fails

Short Lessons in Divine Science

What is Real and What Illusion?

The Training of Children: Based upon the Practical Principles of Life

Studies of Health

The Kingdom of Law.

Brooks was the author of:


Several of her sermons were collected in Into the Light of Healing.

Colorado Prison Association (1908) .

Biennial Report

Deane, Hazel (2006) Powerful is the Light, Kessinger Publishing,  978-1-4286-0920-4.

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First Divine Science Church of Denver, , accessed May 2008.

"Centennial"

"Nona Lovell Brooks" in Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 5th ed. Gale Group, 2001. Reproduced in , accessed May 2008

Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.

"Nona Lovell Brooks" in Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed. Gale Group, 1999. Reproduced in , accessed May 2008.

Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.

Satter, Beryl (2001) Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920, University of California Press,  978-0-520-22927-3.

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