MARY BAKER EDDY

Scientist. In 1875 she published SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, which has remained the central text, along with the Bible, of the Christian Science movement. According to Christian Science teaching, health and spirituality are one, and disease is an aberration that can be corrected through spiritual understanding--to which prayer is central. Though this attitude toward disease may seem at odds with current science, nevertheless it is a coherent system that has attracted millions, and SCIENCE AND HEALING includes many ...

Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of the Christian Scientist denomination. She was born at Bow, near Concord, N. H. She founded the first Christian Science Church at Boston in 1879, and opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College there in 1881. She frequently appeared upon the lecture platform, and wrote much for the Christian Science publications, but is most widely known as the author of Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures. This edition includes the following writings:Unity Of GoodRudimental Divine ScienceRetrospection And IntrospectionPulpit And PressNo And YesPoems