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Christian Science
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with List of Christian thinkers in science or Scientology.
Christian Science
The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Boston, Massachusetts
Classification Protestant
Founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)
Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
Key texts The Bible and Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
Membership 100,000 in the United States;[1] 400,000 worldwide, according to the church[2]
Key beliefs "Basic teachings", Church of Christ, Scientist
Website christianscience.com
Periodicals The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel, Christian Science Herald, Christian Science Bible Lesson
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.[3] It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), who argued in her book Science and Health (1875) that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. The book became Christian Science's central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.[4]
Eddy and 26 followers were granted a charter in 1879 to found the Church of Christ (Scientist), and in 1894 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was built in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] By the early 20th century Christian Science had become the fastest growing religion in the United States, with nearly 270,000 members there by 1936, a figure that had declined by 1990 to 106,000.[6] The church is known for its newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which won seven Pulitzer Prizes between 1950 and 2002, and for its Reading Rooms, which are open to the public in around 1,200 cities.[7]
Christian Scientists see their religion as a return to "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing," in the words of Eddy's Manual of the Mother Church (1895).[8] There are key differences between Christian Science and orthodox Christian theology.[9] In particular adherents subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion.[10] This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated, not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.[11]
The church does not require that Christian Scientists avoid all medical care – adherents use dentists, optometrists, obstetricians, physicians for broken bones, and vaccination when required by law – but maintains that Christian Science prayer is most effective when not combined with medicine.[12] Between the 1880s and 1990s the avoidance of medical treatment was blamed for the deaths of several adherents and their children; parents and others were prosecuted for manslaughter or neglect, and in a few cases convicted.[13]
Christian Science theology differs in several respects from that of traditional Christianity. Eddy redefined the Christian vocabulary, leading to the reinterpretation of several Christian concepts, including the Trinity, divinity of Jesus, atonement and resurrection.[25]
Eddy saw God not as a person, but as "All-in-all," a divine principle, which she called "Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."[29] At the core of her theology is the view that the spiritual world is entirely good, that the material world (including evil, sickness and death) is an illusion, and that humankind is a perfect idea of Divine Mind; Bryan Wilson writes that what Eddy called "mortal man" is simply humankind's distorted view of itself.[30] Despite her view that evil did not exist, an important element of Christian Science theology is that evil thought, which Eddy called malicious animal magnetism, can cause harm, even if the harm is only apparent.[31]
Christian Science
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with List of Christian thinkers in science or Scientology.
Christian Science
The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Boston, Massachusetts
Classification Protestant
Founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)
Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
Key texts The Bible and Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
Membership 100,000 in the United States;[1] 400,000 worldwide, according to the church[2]
Key beliefs "Basic teachings", Church of Christ, Scientist
Website christianscience.com
Periodicals The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel, Christian Science Herald, Christian Science Bible Lesson
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.[3] It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), who argued in her book Science and Health (1875) that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. The book became Christian Science's central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.[4]
Eddy and 26 followers were granted a charter in 1879 to found the Church of Christ (Scientist), and in 1894 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was built in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] By the early 20th century Christian Science had become the fastest growing religion in the United States, with nearly 270,000 members there by 1936, a figure that had declined by 1990 to 106,000.[6] The church is known for its newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which won seven Pulitzer Prizes between 1950 and 2002, and for its Reading Rooms, which are open to the public in around 1,200 cities.[7]
Christian Scientists see their religion as a return to "primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing," in the words of Eddy's Manual of the Mother Church (1895).[8] There are key differences between Christian Science and orthodox Christian theology.[9] In particular adherents subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion.[10] This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated, not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.[11]
The church does not require that Christian Scientists avoid all medical care – adherents use dentists, optometrists, obstetricians, physicians for broken bones, and vaccination when required by law – but maintains that Christian Science prayer is most effective when not combined with medicine.[12] Between the 1880s and 1990s the avoidance of medical treatment was blamed for the deaths of several adherents and their children; parents and others were prosecuted for manslaughter or neglect, and in a few cases convicted.[13]
Christian Science theology differs in several respects from that of traditional Christianity. Eddy redefined the Christian vocabulary, leading to the reinterpretation of several Christian concepts, including the Trinity, divinity of Jesus, atonement and resurrection.[25]
Eddy saw God not as a person, but as "All-in-all," a divine principle, which she called "Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."[29] At the core of her theology is the view that the spiritual world is entirely good, that the material world (including evil, sickness and death) is an illusion, and that humankind is a perfect idea of Divine Mind; Bryan Wilson writes that what Eddy called "mortal man" is simply humankind's distorted view of itself.[30] Despite her view that evil did not exist, an important element of Christian Science theology is that evil thought, which Eddy called malicious animal magnetism, can cause harm, even if the harm is only apparent.[31]
