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  Church of Christ, Scientist
The Church of Christ, Scientist, is designed to make the healing and educational system known as Christian Science available and accessible to everyone.
Christian Science enables us to understand our relationship to a loving God and our relationship to each other.
The complete explanation of Christian Science is contained in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
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  Christian Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Science is a teaching regarding the efficacy of spiritual healing according to the interpretation of the Bible by Mary Baker Eddy, in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Eddy, 1934).
Christian Science shares with George Berkeley a belief in the unreality of matter, but it rejects matter not just as a superfluous term or concept--for Christian Science, what we call the material world is a kind of hallucinatory distortion of the underlying spiritual reality, a distortion that can be healed through prayer.
Christian Science was elaborated by a female thinker--Mary Baker Eddy--who rejected the "coldness" of traditional philosophy and emphasized the importance of love (in the sense of agape) as well as abstract thought, and indeed the desirability of the integration of the two.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Science   (4438 words)

  
 Church of Christ, Scientist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Science is not to be confused with Scientology, which was founded about 75 years after Christian Science and which is not based on Christianity.
Christian Science practitioners are listed in the Christian Science Journal, with the permission of the church's Board of Directors, their only form of official recognition by the church and among the Christian Science laity.
Christian Science teaches that Christ Jesus was sent by God and that his history is factual, including the virgin birth, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension, including the fact that Jesus now sits at the right hand of God.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Church_of_Christ,_Scientist   (5250 words)

  
 Christian Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Christian Science is based on a very different perception of God and reality than that of traditional Christianity.
The priciples behind her beliefs were published in 1875 as Science and Health, later revised as Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
The only distinctive emblem belonging to the Christian Science Church is the cross and crown surrounded by a verse from the Bible, which is found on every copy of science and health.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/xtnsci.html   (572 words)

  
 Christian Science
The founder of Christian Science was Mary Ann Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, born in Bow, New Hampshire in 1821, to Mark and Abigail Baker.
Mortal Mind‑According to Christian Science, it is the source of the illusions of evil, sickness, sin and death.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ‑ Contains the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
www.greatcom.org /resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/01chap11   (2779 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: The Church of Christ, Scientist; Christian Science
Christian Scientists appreciate the compassionate humanity of doctors and nurses, but they turn typically to prayer as the means of healing they've seen as effective in their lives.
Christian Science is unique in its long-standing, systematic teaching and practice of a spiritual healing method through prayer alone.
The Christian Science Sentinel was designed to note the events and emerging trends that most affect people, and illustrate how an understanding of the spiritual laws and nature of God are enabling people to exercise greater dominion in their lives.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/chrissci.html   (4206 words)

  
 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE)
Christian Science is a Christian denomination based on the teachings and works of Christ Jesus.
Christian Scientists respect the work of the medical profession, but choose prayer as treatment for themselves and their children rather than medicine because they have experienced prayer's effectiveness many times in their lives.
Christian Science has been condemned for its unique interpretation of scriptures.
www.religioustolerance.org /cr_sci.htm   (3144 words)

  
 Christian Science
Christian Science is so foreign to the Bible that, if it didn't use words like Jesus, Trinity, Love, Grace, Sin, etc., you'd never suspect it had anything to do with the Bible at all.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the primary interpretive source of the Bible and source guide of Christian Science.
Christian Science teaches that man does not have a sinful nature and is a reflection of Divine Mind.
www.freegift77.com /christia3.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Christian Science - Christian or Cult?
Christian Science claims to prove through the healing of disease and other difficulties that the understanding of God and his spiritual creation is as effective now as it was in Jesus' time.
Christian Science teaches that the death of Jesus Christ for sin was a "man-made" theory, and that Jesus was alive in the tomb, demonstrating the "power of Spirit to overrule mortal, material sense" (Science and Health, p.
Christian Scientists claim that since organic disease does not exist, "the cause of all so-called disease is mental" [i.e., 'the belief in sin is thereby the cause of it'], "a mistaken belief" (Science and Health, p.
www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Cults/science.htm   (3064 words)

  
 Christian Science
Christian Science continues to uphold her belief that Jesus revealed to people their illusion of illness and thus cured them, even though she was not cured and sought out a medicinal illusion.
Christian Science never grew to the numbers by its contemporaneous movements such as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses probably because of its metaphysical slant easily identified as not biblical even by other cults.
Their publications are The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, The Herald of Christian Science, published in 12 foreign languages as well as in English Braille; (which seems to be an oxymoron from their own beliefs) and The Christian Science Quarterly, containing the Bible lessons studied daily by Christian Scientists.
www.letusreason.org /Cults18.htm   (8674 words)

  
 CSEC -- An Introduction to Christian Science
Christian Science gives a clear understanding of God and of man made in His image and likeness; and with this understanding we are able to rise above false thinking and its effects.
Christian Science is health-giving, divinely educational, acknowledging but one Mind, one Father-Mother, one family, the brotherhood of man, all heirs of the same affluent God.
For centuries the word science has been so appropriated by materialists and claimed to have relation only to physical causes and their phenomena that quite a shock was felt when it was first applied to religion.
www.endtime.org /intro/cs.html   (543 words)

  
 Christian Science -- Beliefnet.com
The result was a system of healing she dubbed Christian Science and described in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Christian Science teaches that these and other spiritual facts undergirded Jesus' healing work--and form the basis on which others can heal physical and spiritual problems today.
For most Christian Scientists, healing through prayer is an effective first choice and, as a result, they turn to the power of prayer in lieu of medical treatment.
www.beliefnet.com /index/index_10123.asp   (625 words)

  
 Christian Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She was convinced that Christian healing was a misunderstood "science," and she set herself the task of outlining its methodology.
Christian Scientists deny the doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of Christ, and the Redemption on the Cross.
In witnessing to a Christian Scientist it is important to point out that his faith is in the experience and writings of a particular person (Mary Baker Eddy), whereas ours, as Orthodox Christians, is in the real and living Son of God, Jesus Christ- the radiant center of our life and hope.
www.roca.org /oa/92/92k.htm   (1002 words)

  
 American Atheists // Christian Science
Although only a few Christian Science children are known to have died in Ohio in recent years, by putting the present unconstitutional religious exemption into Ohio's laws in 1977, the Christian Science Church has made it possible for other cultists legally to kill their children by faith non-healing or prayer over-dose.
Although the Christian Science Church never reveals statistics of its membership or of its cure rates, it has bamboozled the public so well that "absent treatment" by these quacks is reimbursable by many major insurance companies.
Although one would suppose that a Christian Scientist applying for sick leave from work would be an acute embarrassment to Church and family alike, Christian Science practitioners are legally authorized to certify sick leave and disability claims for both government and private employees.
www.atheists.org /church/xtianScience.html   (5106 words)

  
 About Christian Science
Christian Science, as discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, refers to the universal, practical system of spiritual, prayer-based healing, available and accessible to everyone.
Christian Science is fully explained in Eddy’s primary text on spirituality and healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is not a prerequisite for the practice of Christian Science.
www.tfccs.com /aboutchristianscience   (145 words)

  
 Christian Science, Church of Christ Science, Christian Scientists, What Christian Scientists Believe, About Christian ...
Often, a trained Christian Science practitioner is called to support the patient's thought through prayerfully "knowing the truth."
Physicians are not viewed antagonistically; but their methods are seen as ineffective because they treat disease as originating in the body rather than mind.
Homosexuality is often regarded negatively, a belief that requires healing through Christian Science practices--the Mother Church has not announced opposition to this view.
www.beliefnet.com /story/80/story_8039_1.html   (522 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com
Science, government policy, and politics come together in official reports and at international conferences.
Democrats and the White House tussle over a new GAO assessment.
On the horizon: news from the frontiers of science
www.csmonitor.com   (298 words)

  
 Christian Science?
He notes that neither the contraceptive vaginal sponge nor the female condom needed such data to be approved, and that scores of drugs, in addition to contraceptives, didn’t require research targeting specific age groups.
That same month, Hager’s status as a cause célèbre of the Christian right was again evident when four members of Congress—two Democrats, two Republicans—unsuccessfully opposed his reappointment by the Bush administration, citing a religious bias.
As Hager prepares for his next one-year term, he insists that he is first and foremost a scientist and that his position on Plan B re-flects his objectivity.
www.motherjones.com /news/outfront/2004/09/09_500.html   (961 words)

  
 Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Apologetics research resources on Christian Science
"The unwillingness of many Christian Science parents to seek help from physicians for their critically ill children has led to many painful and unnecessary deaths and, increasingly, to legal actions that have become burdensome to the Church and its members"
Written by former Christian Scientists who lost their son as a result of their religious beliefs regarding medical care.
The site provides information that helps equip Christians to logically present and defend the Christian faith, and that aids non-Christians in their comparison of various religious claims.
www.apologeticsindex.org /c56.html   (272 words)

  
 Reason: Christian Science: Trial exposes Intelligent Design as the religion it is
Proponents like Stephen Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, claim that "the theory of intelligent design holds that there are tell-tale features of living systems and the universe that are best explained by an intelligent cause." In other words, life is too complex to have developed through purely natural causes.
This country was founded on Christianity and our students should be taught as such." Interestingly, Judge Jones found that board members later lied under oath about making these and other similar statements because they realized that their words revealed the religious, not scientific, motivations behind their actions.
This was made plain in the Institute's now notorious "wedge strategy" in which the Institute explained that it planned to forge ID into a "wedge" to cut down the "giant tree" of scientific materialism.
www.reason.com /rb/rb122305.shtml   (817 words)

  
 CSPractitioners.com - Germany Practitioner Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He has lectured on Christian Science in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
If you can't find a Christian Science practitioner in your area, and you don't have a copy of The Christian Science Journal, you may call us for names/phone numbers of Christian Science practitioners in your area.
Based on author Mary Baker Eddy's own insights and experiences, Science and Health will help you unlock the door to spirituality.
www.cspractitioners.com /practitionerdirectory/germany.html   (175 words)

  
 The Christian Science Monitor | Daily Online Newspaper
Articles from The Christian Science Monitor may be photocopied, and articles from csmonitor.com may be downloaded and printed on paper, for your own personal, non-commercial use only.
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No director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of The Christian Science Monitor (The Christian Science Publishing Society), or its affiliates, shall be personally liable for the performance of or failure to perform any provision of this Terms of Service.
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 Christian Science versus Pantheism
pulpit that Christian Science is pantheism is anomalous to
Christian Science is Science, and therefore is neither
not fallen or inverted, is demonstrated by Christian Science.
www.mbeinstitute.org /Prose_Works/CSvsPantheism.html   (2931 words)

  
 The Christian Science Journal
The Christian Science Journal has brought health and spirituality into the lives of individuals and families since 1883.
That was the start of a lifelong study of Christian Science that illuminated his spiritual path.
This writer, who lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo, describes how he found Christian Science—and was able to overcome a serious illness through prayer.
www.spirituality.com /journal/index.jhtml   (179 words)

  
 Christian Science | MetaFilter
Life makes more sense when you think that the Christian fundamentalists are going through a "last gasp" of sorts.
I'm not suprised that he wrote that stuff, since his office door was covered with Weekly World news headlines and insane Christian fundamentalist stuff about Christianity, and he approaches religion from a historical/archaeological/literary angle, so it must drive him nuts to have to deal with that stuff.
I'm not sure Kristol and Bork are arguing against science, or evolution; just against those arrogant enough to think that it explains everything; or explains how the process began, or why we are here, or why we are not just animals.
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