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New Thought emphasizes the idea of growing or developing thought. The word New stresses the movement's interest in what is innovative and progressive. New Thought practitioners hold that as ideas form and spread, they become part of the fabric of human consciousness and human thought is transformed; they accept and even embrace this endless transformation, while simultaneously acknowledging the thread of history and the unfoldment of creative thought.

New Thought religions are a panentheistic belief system, and are often considered more philosophy than religion by adherents. New Thought holds that an immanent presence, often referred to as Mind, Universal Presence, or Life, is the primary basis of all interconnected reality, personal and transcendent. In line with Philosophical Idealism, New Thought professes the primacy of mind in relation to the experience of the physical world, and places great emphasis in positive thinking, affirmations, meditation, and prayer.

New Thought churches often avoid dogmatic pronouncements about the afterlife or other theological questions, and vary significantly in the degree to which they associate themselves with Christianity or other major world religions. New Thought teaching asserts some distinction from traditional religious movements in that the personal experience and understanding of (God, Presence, Truth) is expected to evolve and not remain static. The majority of New Thought churches display, discuss, and sell a wide variety of religious and New Age literature.

Although New Thought churches are sometimes identified or associated with the New Age movement, New Thought churches typically do not share major tenets of New Age thinking (frequently avoiding any teaching of mysticism or Occultism.)

New Thought teaches that we are evolved and evolving beings, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Universal law or cosmic urge forever pushes and projects humankind forward into higher physical, mental, and spiritual growth and development. Alan Anderson and Deb Whitehouse described New Thought as a "process," such that each individual and even the New Thought Movement itself is "new every moment." Thomas McFaul has hypothesized "continuous revelation," with new insights being received by individuals continuously over time. Jean Houston has spoken of the "possible human," or what we are capable of becoming.