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Mary Baker Eddy and Exegesis
Critical analysis of the Bible profoundly shaped Mary Baker Eddy’s major work, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”
What is the background of the name “Church of Christ, Scientist”?
Mary Baker Eddy devoted much time and attention to naming the Church she founded.
What do the titles C.S., C.S.B., and C.S.D. signify?
Learn about designations in the practice and teaching of Christian Science.
What prompted the Church By-Law about illegal adoption?
Here’s the story leading up to Mary Baker Eddy’s instruction on illegal adoption in the “Manual of The Mother Church.”
What’s behind the marginal headings in Science and Health?
Mary Baker Eddy first considered using marginal headings in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in 1889, and the 50th edition of the book (published in 1891) was the first to contain them.
How did the term “The Mother Church” come about?
The first documented use of this term is found in notes from March 5, 1889, taken by Joshua Bailey during one of Mary Baker Eddy’s classes in Christian Science healing.
Did Mary Baker Eddy care about the environment?
Even though Eddy doesn’t fit her era’s image of an environmentalist, she still cared deeply for the environment. She loved animals and nature, and believed that the beauty of the natural world was a reflection of the beauty and majesty of God.
How did Mary Baker Eddy feel about animals?
So many people have a deep love for animals. Here’s what the discoverer of Christian Science had to say.
Were there ever film or audio recordings made of Mary Baker Eddy?
Unfortunately, none were. There is no discussion of film in her papers, so we have no information about why this was not done. However, one of her household workers, John Salchow, wrote in his reminiscence about Eddy being asked to have an audio recording made of her...
What was Eddy’s perspective on women’s rights?
Mary Baker Eddy made few statements about this, but we do know that she valued the efforts of the women’s rights movement of her day. In 1882 she wrote her student Clara Choate: “let us work as the industrious Suffragists are at work who are getting a hearing all over...
Did Eddy have a pamphlet about the Great Pyramid?
Here’s what we know.
Did Eddy provide guidance on benedictions?
See her comments on this aspect of the Sunday Church service.
Did Churchill ever ask British Christian Scientists to pray?
Find out about these wartime requests.
Did Francis Fluno write “Criticism”?
Read about the authenticity of this work. Text included.
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? A letter to Septimus J. Hanna
Read about a document that mixes the authentic and inauthentic.
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