Joseph Murphy

Joseph Denis Murphy (May 20, 1898 ? December 16, 1981) was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science. In the 1950s, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He moved his ministry to Laguna Hills, California, where he died in 1981. His wife, Dr. Jean Murphy, continued in this ministry for some years afterwards.