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 AnnotationJudaism and Christian Science
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“Truly a Liberated Woman: Tehilla Lichtenstein and Her Unique Role in the History of American Judaism” (2014)
The Society of Jewish Science was a response to the mass conversion of Jews, particularly women, to Christian Science. Its purpose was to revive a growing secular Judaism with elements Lichtenstein feared had been lost: healing, personal prayer, and belief in the Divine Spirit within. Unlike Christian Science, the Society did not reject medicine or deny the reality of matter.
View Annotation“‘Israel’s Return to Zion’: Jewish Christian Scientists in the United States. 1880–1925” (2013)
As Christian Science gained popularity in the 1880s, Reformed Jews who had recently migrated to the U.S. were attracted to it. Although Mary Baker Eddy would fall into the historic Christian pattern of deprecating Judaism as legalistic, she was in agreement with Judaism’s monotheism, and with the tenet that Jesus was not God but the Christ or Messiah available to all.
View AnnotationFrom Christian Science to Jewish Science, Spiritual Healing and American Jews (2005)
Umansky studies the history of Jewish Science—a movement that arose to counter the estimated tens of thousands of Jews (a majority women) attracted to Christian Science in the late 19th and early 20th century. These Jews had been attracted to Christian Science’s promise of health and healing. Umansky also examines the Christian Science theology that resonated with Jewish beliefs.
View AnnotationFootsteps of Israel: From Eden to the City of God (1922)
Contrary to Mary Baker Eddy’s own theology, Greenwood claims that Israel is the origin of God’s revelation of spiritual reality to humanity and was lost, then restored by Christian Science through an Anglo-Israel lineage. From his biblical interpretation, Greenwood concludes that Israel lost its way through materialism. Jesus accepted the prophetic calling to save the lost Israel which Christian Science restores.
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