Book Report in Positive Thinking

Book Report on: The Power of Positive idea         By: Ms. Arianne Joy R. Romasanta BSED1-1N       To: Prof. Junithesmer Doctor-Rosales       Date: January 20, 2011            Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)   Born in Bowersville, Ohio, USA, on May 31 1898, Norman Vincent Peale grew up serving support his family by delivering newspapers, working in a mart store, and selling pots and pans door to door, but later was to become unrivaled of the most influential clergymen in the United States during the 20th-century.   He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University. He was a newsman on the Findlay, Ohio, Morning Republic prior to entering the ministry and went on to author some 40 books. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal church building in 1922, Peale served as pastor at a succession of churches that included Berkeley, Rhode Island (192224), Brooklyn, New York (192427), and Syracuse, New York (192732) in the beginning changing his affiliation to the Dutch Reformed church so that he could become pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City (193284).

There he gained fame for his sermons on a positive approach to modern living, which were regularly broadcast, initial on radio and later on television. The church had 600 members when he arrived to pastor in 1932; it had over 5,000 by the time he retired in 1984. In 1969 and 1970 he was president of the Reformed Church in America.   In 1937, Peale established a clinic with Freudian shrink Dr. Smiley Blanton in the basement of the Marble Collegiate Church. The clinic was described as having a theoretical base that was Jungian, with a strong express of neo- and post-Freudianism (Carol V.R. George, Gods Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking, p. 90).  It subsequently grew to an process with more than 20 psychiatric doctors and psychologically- trained ministers, and in 1951 became cognise as the American Foundation for Religion and... If you want to notice a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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