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Article: JOURNAL CHARGES PEALE PLAGIARIZED AFFIRMATIONS FROM OCCULTIST THEOLOGIANS' ARTICLE CITES SIMILARITIES OF WORDS, PHRASES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 6, 1995
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Byline: ELINOR J. BRECHER Knight-Ridder
Was the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, father of the ``believe and succeed'' theology sweeping American Protestantism, a plagiarist inspired by the occult?
A former Peale protege and a Unitarian minister think so.
In the current issue of the journal Lutheran Quarterly, the Rev. John Gregory Tweed of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and the Rev. George D. Exoo of Pittsburgh write that many of Peale's uplifting affirmations originated with an ``obscure teacher of Occult science'' named Florence Scovel Shinn.
Lutheran Quarterly is a juried academic journal of theology and history, with a national circulation ...