Christian Science

This source names Christian Science directly: "The Christian Science Journal's November 2010 issue, carrying an Annual Meeting 2010 interview with Mother Church Treasurer Ned Odegaard, reporting that the Church held about 450 million dollars in..."

Christian Science was founded in Boston, and the Mother Church there remains its administrative center.

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This source names Christian Science directly: "Press wire report, carried by The Christian Science Monitor, on Bishop John Magee's resignation as Bishop of Cloyne, quoting his own resignation statement asking forgiveness of anyone he had failed."

This source names Christian Science directly: "legal and cultural conflicts between Christian Science religious healing practice and American medicine and law, particularly cases where Christian Science parents faced prosecution over healthcare..."

This source names Christian Science directly: "Christian Science sites are held apart from the broader Christian grouping for the same reason Seventh-day Adventist and Latter-day Saint sites already are: a distinct nineteenth century founding..."

This source names Christian Science directly: "Baker Eddy's life and the history of Christian Science, and its pages give first edition publication details, the collaboration with illustrator James F."

This source names Christian Science directly: "including the provisions establishing Christian Science practitioners and teachers."

This source names Christian Science directly: "A 1992 Christian Science Monitor report on Mexico's constitutional reform of that January, which amended Articles 3, 5, 24, 27 and 130 and, with the Law on Religious Associations and Public Worship..."

This source names Christian Science directly: "doctrine of one particular movement, Christian Science or Scientology for instance, needs a source focused on that movement rather than this survey."

This source names Christian Science directly: "Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, first published in 1875, is her own foundational primary scripture setting out its doctrine, including..."

This source names Christian Science directly: "with elements drawn from Buddhism, Christian Science and the wider international New Thought movement, teaching that illness and suffering belong to an ultimately unreal phenomenal world rather than..."

Baptism is understood as purification of thought and is not performed with water.

Eddy repudiated the mind-cure and New Thought bodies that grew from the same nineteenth century American mental-healing milieu, holding their teaching a pantheistic distortion of hers, and Christian Science remains institutionally separate from them.

Communion is kept as a silent spiritual communion without bread or wine, twice a year, and the material elements are held to be unnecessary to it.

Christian Science affirms the resurrection while denying that a material body was raised, since matter itself is held to be unreal.

Eddy published Science and Health in 1875, organised the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and reorganised it in 1892, and left the Manual of by-laws that governs it.

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Christian Science reads the angels of scripture as God's thoughts passing to man, spiritual intuitions rather than personal beings, so its angelology is an account of thought and not of creatures.

Christian Science reads Gabriel as the message of divine Science rather than as a personal being, part of a wider reading of the angels as God's thoughts passing to man.

Christian Science reads the angels of scripture as God's thoughts passing to man rather than as personal created beings, so Michael names a spiritual quality and not an individual.

Read together with Mary Baker Eddy's spiritual interpretation, which puts Love in place of the divine name through the psalm, so what a service hears is the psalm and its gloss as a single text.

With no elements there is no cup, and the church holds no vessel set apart for one.

Christian Science holds evil to be unreal, an error of mortal mind rather than a being with a will, so there is no demonic order for a demonology to describe.

Communion in Christian Science is kept twice a year by kneeling in silence. No bread and no wine are used, the elements being read as spiritual understanding rather than as substances.

The practitioner devotes full time to healing by prayer as Christian Science teaches it, is listed in the church directory, and charges for the work. The office exists in no other church.

Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association was founded in 1916 as a department of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and although The Mother Church transferred it to an independent board of trustees in 1981, it continues to operate as a Christian Science nursing care institution realizing Mary Baker Eddy's founding vision, so linked to Christian Science at the denomination level.

Mary Baker Eddy's own illustrated poem, commissioned and personally directed by Christian Science's founder, and openly published rather than restricted.

Healing by prayer alone is the central practice of this body, and its practitioners are listed and paid for that work.

Prayer is understood as the correction of thought rather than as petition to a God who might or might not grant it, and it is the means by which healing is sought.

The church has no preaching clergy: since 1895 the Bible and Science and Health have been its ordained pastor, read by two elected lay Readers who may not comment, from a lesson used identically worldwide each week.

Mary Baker Eddy's teaching that God is wholly good and wholly Spirit, so that matter, sin, sickness and death are errors of mortal belief rather than realities, is the metaphysical claim from which the church's healing practice follows.

Both grew out of the same nineteenth-century American metaphysical healing milieu associated with Phineas Quimby. Christian Science rejects the New Thought bodies and they reject it.

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