Mary Baker Eddy’s approach to the weather is the topic of research, including stories of how threatening weather and the laws of nature were made subordinate to God’s divine law. One student of Eddy’s explains how she instructed them not to try to control the weather. Rather, their prayers were to affirm that God, not outside influences, governs the weather.
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Science and Spirituality As Applied to OD: The Unique Christian Science Perspective (2020)
Booth seeks correlations between the field of Organizational Development, quantum physics, and Christian Science, with the intent of determining how the principles and practices of Christian Science, in sync with quantum physics, might align with, and be a resource for, business challenges. The thesis is based on interviews with fifteen Christian Scientists about their experience relating their theology to their business practices.
View Annotation“Modernist Posthumanism in Moore, H.D., and Loy” (2017)
Mina Loy’s Christian Science faith with its views of the body, along with 19th-century spiritualism informed her poetry. She conceptualized in her poetry a non-binary kind of embodiment—away from body/soul or life/death—to life as beyond the body. Loy saw death and the physical as illusory and thereby able to break with biological determinism and personality.
View Annotation“A Christian Science View on Climate Justice” (2017)
Writing in the context of ecumenical concerns, Paulson sees it as vital that science and religion work together to bring about climate justice and she sees the moral and theological perspective of Christian Science as a valuable contribution, with its “understanding of science in the context of salvation.”
View Annotation“Western Esoteric Family IV: Christian Science-Metaphysical” in Melton’s Encyclopedia of American Religions, Canada (2017)
The metaphysical nature of the religious belief and practice of Christian Science triggered theological, ecclesial, legal, medical, scientific, and moral controversies. Mary Baker Eddy also dealt with stress and trauma throughout her life. The metaphysical aspect of Christian Science does not detract from its practicality in human experience, as the metaphysically induced healing is evidence of the full salvation to come.
View Annotation21st Century Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures: A modern version of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health (2017)
Petersen has made a paraphrase revision of Mary Baker Eddy’s 19th-century textbook, Science and Health, with the purpose of elucidating divine Science for the 21st century. In her Preface she avows her great efforts to keep Eddy’s original meaning of divine Science intact, while using more current (and inclusive) language and illustrations, and quoting from modern Bible versions.
View Annotation“Science, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Revelation: The Case of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship” (2016)
Stob is interested in the rhetoric used by early Christian Science lecturers, who were active during the American Progressive Era, to convince the public that Christian Science was worth investigating. These lectures effectively used novel language that expands the parameters of revelatory discourse. Eddy and her lecturers moved divine revelation from an other-worldly mystery into a framework for individual agency.
View AnnotationJewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism with Special Reference to the Jewish Scriptures and Prayer Book (2016)
Moses’s 1916 book intended to foster a Jewish spiritual renaissance and to prove that Judaism long held what appears so attractive to the early 20th-century Jewish converts to Christian Science: divine healing, affirmative prayer, and a religion of love and law. He catalogs Jewish scripture illustrating healing and divine love, and contrasts Christian Science tenets with Jewish faith.
View Annotation“Christian Science and Scientology: Ecclesiologies” (2015)
In this brief article, Westbrook makes some comparisons between Christian Science and Scientology. In common both draw on a theological link between science and religion, and both refer to their main church body as their ‘Mother Church.’ But mainly Westbrook points out their dramatic differences in theology, organization and mission.
View Annotation“Church of Christ, Scientist: Adherent Essay” (2014)
This essay by an adherent of Christian Science accompanies the main article on Christian Science. Paulson describes her childhood experience and how her religious practice was her primary source of comfort and healing. She recognizes distinctions between Christian Science and orthodox Christianity and explains why she thinks the typical orthodox view of Christian Science’s similarity with Gnosticism is misleading.
View Annotation“Writing Revelation: Mary Baker Eddy and Her Early Editions of Science and Health, 1875-1891” (2013)
…her textbook as co-pastor in 1894. Finally, she profiles those who studied Eddy’s textbook and practiced “the principle or science behind the healing in the Christian Scriptures” (14). Access…
View Annotation“The Christian Scientists” in America: Religions and Religion (2012)
Albanese’s undergraduate textbook explains Christian Science in the context of the evolution of religions and the meaning of religion in America. Christian Science was one of the 19th-century new religions that made considerable demands on its members, as new sects often did. Albanese’s theological explanations of Christian Science are based on her thorough knowledge of the American metaphysical movement.
View Annotation“Corresponding to the Rational World: Scientific Rationales and Language in Christian Science and the Unity School of Christianity” (2011)
Rapport argues that both Christian Science and the Unity School of Christianity came into being during an emerging scientific worldview, and implemented their “scientific rationale and language as a strategy to validate themselves in late 19th-century America.” But, whereas Unity used science to complement Protestantism, Eddy employed scientific language to defy mainstream science and religion.
View Annotation“Christian Science” in Vol. 1 of the Encyclopedia of Religion in America (2010)
Ivey’s history of Christian Science covers a broad range of topics including a brief history of Eddy’s personal preparation for the founding of the Church, the healing theology of Christian Science, the establishment of the Church, broader contexts of the appeal of Christian Science, the role of language for its expression, the maturing years in the early 20th century, and the challenges of adapting to a changing world in the late 20th century.
View Annotation“From Edwards to Emerson to Eddy: Extending a Trajectory of Metaphysical Idealism” in The Contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American Society and Culture: Essays on America’s Spiritual Founding Father (2008)
Weddle compares Jonathan Edwards’s, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s, and Mary Baker Eddy’s views on how each understood the connection of divinity with the human and natural world. In response to Emerson, Eddy asks from her Christian Science perspective: How could divine spirit bring forth from itself a world entirely opposite to itself? Either God is material or the world is spiritual.
View AnnotationFive Smooth Stones: Our Power To Heal Without Medicine Through The Science Of Prayer (2008)
Johnson’s book expounds on the ‘science of prayer’—based on her own journey of discovery and framed by her Christian Science faith. Each of the seven chapters explores one of Mary Baker Eddy’s seven synonymous terms for God. Each synonym represents a scientific law effectively defeating any challenge that confronts the reader and bringing healing.
View AnnotationThe Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (2008)
Harrington seeks non-medical causes for illness and cures. Beginning in antiquity, she concludes her research with modern scientific research in brain science. Harrison positions Christian Science in the context of the American ‘mind-cure’ movement of the 19th and 20th centuries with two competing groups: scientists and doctors, and those who blur the powers of God and the human mind.
View AnnotationVarieties of Scientific Experience: Mary Baker Eddy, William James, and Other Honest Investigators of the 19th Century (2008)
Roberts, Tomorrow Foundation Professor of American Intellectual History at Boston University, argues that Eddy endorsed a rather classical view of the meaning of science and held that science, rightly conceived, simply referred to genuine knowledge and pure truth. Eddy concluded that the term ‘science’ should be applied to the laws of God and God’s government of the universe.
View Annotation“Book review of ‘Rolling Away the Stone’ by Stephen Gottschalk” (2007)
In her review, Bednarowski describes Gottschalk’s study as “a provocative blend of intellectual history, theological analysis, cultural interpretation, and religious conviction” (213). He focuses on the latter, controversial years, in which Mary Baker Eddy was compelled to articulate more definitively for herself and her students the distinctive way that Christian Science should combat various forms of materialism: medical, philosophical, and ecclesiastical.
View Annotation“Source Material on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy” (2007)
To aid scholars interested in researching primary source materials on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the Mary Baker Eddy Library provides a summary of its vast holdings, including approximately 20,000 letters, articles, sermons, and other manuscript materials written by Eddy, nearly 8,000 letters written by her secretaries on her behalf, letters by approximately 7,000 different correspondents, and over 800 reminiscences.
View AnnotationA Journey into Prayer: Pioneers of Prayer in the Laboratory; Agents of Science or Satan? (2007)
Sweet’s firsthand account of the lives and work of Bruce and his son John Klingbeil describes their organization, Spindrift, and their deep involvement with Christian Science. Spindrift’s scientific experiments with prayer for plants, attempted to prove that prayer works, but their struggles with public rejection and excommunication from the Church until their double suicide in 1993 plagued them until the end.
View AnnotationA Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (2007)
Albanese identifies three major forms of religion in America: evangelical, liturgical, and metaphysical, claiming that the key to understanding religion in America is the influence of the metaphysical on the others.She locates Christian Science in a continuum of 19th-century metaphysical expressions from Andrew Jackson Davis and Spiritualism to Phineas P. Quimby and then influencing directly and indirectly a wide range of New Thought offshoots.
View AnnotationEpiphanies: Where Science and Miracles Meet (2nd edition) (2007)
Psychotherapist Jauregui brings her clients’ stories of healing and transcendence in conversation with her Christian Science faith, and the reflections of great thinkers and scientists on such topics as: the ontological nature of being; a participatory quantum universe; Freud’s deterministic theories; Isaac Newton’s cosmology; the efficacy of prayer; fractals; and the nature of postmodern psychotherapy as a mystical calling.
View Annotation“Battle of the whispers; A Boston tourist attraction becomes a research lab to resolve a 19th-century sotto voce mystery” (2006)
This brief article aquaints the reader with the unique architectural structure known as the Mapparium which is part of The Mary Baker Eddy Library located in the Christian Science Publishing Society at The Mother Church headquarters in Boston. The structure is a large globe in which visitors can look at the world inside-out from a glass bridge.
View Annotation“Christian Science” in Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America (2006)
Simmons contextualizes Mary Baker Eddy amidst the late 19th-century era of revolutionary change showing how her forebears (Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, Transcendentalism and Spiritualism) “prepared the psychic way” by making explicit to “the American spiritual imagination the connection among physical, psychological, and spiritual health” (94). He reviews Eddy’s theology, the influence of Quimby, and the evolution of Christian Science as an institution.
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