E. W. Kenyon

Preached and taught in New England from the 1890s, founded a Bible institute, and built a theology around the believer's legal standing and the spoken confession of it.

New Creation Realities sets out the core: that a Christian's identity is a completed legal fact to be asserted rather than a state to be achieved through struggle.

Kenyon died in 1948 and his influence runs directly into the Word of Faith movement through Kenneth Hagin, who reproduced substantial portions of his writing. Whether that inheritance is faithful to him, and how much he drew from New Thought metaphysics, is disputed by theologians on both sides.