Christian Science
Healing through faith
Christian Science is a religious movement founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, centered on the belief that illness and suffering are illusions that can be overcome through prayer and spiritual understanding rather than medical treatment.
Adherents hold that reality is entirely spiritual and that physical matter, including disease, has no true existence.
The Church of Christ, Scientist publishes the respected newspaper *The Christian Science Monitor*.
She was raised in Christian Science and never saw doctors as a child.
Place of Christian worship
- denominationNamed religious group
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- Sunday schoolReligious education for children
- practitionerOne who works regularly
Boston · testimony · membership · services · hymnal · lectionary
Non-medical cure through belief
- practitionerOne who works regularly
- divine healingRestoration through holy power
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- wholenessComplete, undivided state
restoration · nonmedical · testimony · demonstration · animal magnetism · error · claim · treatment
Deliberate learning effort
- BibleChristian sacred writings
- quarterlyFour times annually
- citationsAcknowledged source mentions
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
prayer · affirmation · denial · association · periodicals
Belief in noble principles
- immaterialismDoctrine denying physical substance
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
- spiritual realityNon-physical plane of existence
- errorFault in communication
illusion · demonstration · principle · absolute · infinite · eternal · omnipresent · omnipotent
State of being
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- immortalityExemption from death
church
Place of Christian worship
- denominationNamed religious group
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- Sunday schoolReligious education for children
practitioner · Boston · testimony · membership · services · hymnal · lectionary
spiritual healing
Non-medical cure through belief
- practitionerOne who works regularly
- divine healingRestoration through holy power
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
wholeness · restoration · nonmedical · testimony · demonstration · animal magnetism · error · claim · treatment · prayerful
study
Deliberate learning effort
demonstration · prayer · affirmation · denial · association · periodicals
idealism
Belief in noble principles
- immaterialismDoctrine denying physical substance
- monismSingle-substance metaphysics
- spiritual realityNon-physical plane of existence
error · illusion · demonstration · principle · absolute · infinite · eternal · omnipresent · omnipotent
Life
State of being
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- FaithsChristians, Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews
- religionsIslam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
- churchesBaptist church, Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Baptist churches, Lutheran Church
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Islam, Abraham, God, Catholicism
- American ProtestantismBaptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian
- American ReligionCatholic, Catholics, Baptist, Baptists, Methodist
Christian Scienceevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
biomedicine · surgery · chemotherapy · psychiatry · emergency medicine
Christian Sciencematerialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · naturalism · empiricism · secular humanism · reductionism
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