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  Christian Science - Church of Christ, Scientist
The Church of Christ, Scientist is an organization founded by Mary Baker Eddy in an effort to reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.
Mary Baker Eddy was founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and author of its famous textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Christ is not considered a person but rather the true idea of God, and his death or resurrection could not have occurred since evil and sin have no existence.
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 Church of Christ Scientist
When Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, back in 1879, she almost certainly did so in the fervent hope and belief that her new creed would NOT go down in history as a bunch of gruesome, child-torturing, intellectually challenged shitheads.
There is some controversy about their beliefs regarding Jesus Christ himself, but the general thrust of it is that they don't put much stock in the physical act of the crucifixion, focusing instead on the spiritual whatever-ma-bob process.
Non-Christian Scientists tend to read all this as a denial of the basic Christian premises of the trinity and the redemption, but Christian Scientists insist that is not the case.
www.rotten.com /library/religion/church-of-christ-scientist   (1219 words)

  
 THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE)
Eddy (as she is referred to by church members) was a student-associate of Quimby until his death in 1866.
She was inspired to promote the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Lynn, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 1879.
Although she continued to manage church affairs until her death in 1910, she removed herself from public contact and lived in seclusion, in order to revise her book and guide the movement.
www.religioustolerance.org /cr_sci.htm   (3144 words)

  
 Christian Science, Church of Christ Science, Christian Scientists, What Christian Scientists Believe, About Christian ...
We are all sons/daughters of God, though not at the level of understanding of Christ Jesus.
As one realizes the error of belief in the reality of suffering and evil, these images of thought impressed upon the mortal mind can be altered, thus banishing sickness, death, and sin--testimony to the power of faith in God, of Mind over matter.
The church claims no position on abortion, though such a step would clearly not be in harmony with seeing God’s child as perfect and divine.
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 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.
Though she ultimately would form a church whose teachings were the very antithesis of hypnotism, she thought highly of Quimby for his humanitarian efforts.
Today, the Church of Christ, Scientist is deeply involved in dialoguing with both medical and theological thinkers who are examining the method and effects of spiritual healing.
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 Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
Because of its espousal of spiritual healing and its affirmation that Christian Science is incompatible with reliance upon materia medica, the Church of Christ, Scientist has been one of the most important of the nonconventional religions in America as well as a matter of intense controversy from the day of its founding.
The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1919) who as a young woman had been continually hobbled with poor health.
Authority in the Church of Christ, Scientist is derived from the Bible; Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which sets forth its teachings and is the continuing voice of its founder; and the Church Manual.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist - Ridgefield, CT
Our church's aim is to help people know God in a way that is spiritually practical -- solving problems and bringing healing to their lives.
All are welcome at our Sunday and Wednesday evening services.Our church is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, also known as The Mother Church.
You may be interested in listening to inspirational recorded readings from First Church of Christ, Scientist in St. Paul, Minnesota.
www.christiansciencect.org /ridgefield   (1429 words)

  
 First Church of Christ Scientist, Greenwich, CT
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Greenwich is one of the many worldwide branches of The First Church of Christ, Scientist - in Boston, Massachusetts.
The church is located at 11 Park Place, just off Putnam Avenue (the main east-west street in Greenwich, also known as the Post Road or Route 1).
Our church is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist - in Boston, Massachusetts - - sometimes called The Mother Church.
www.christiansciencect.org /greenwich   (1067 words)

  
 First Church of Christ, Scientist
In January 1926, the group was accepted as a society by The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts and became known as Christian Science Society, Stevens Point.
The Pastor is the Holy Bible and the church’s textbook, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
The church was dedicated, being free of debt, on April 30, 1960 and continues to hold services at that location.
www.pchswi.org /archives/church/scientist.html   (607 words)

  
 Berkeley Landmarks :: First Church of Christ, Scientist
The Christian Science Church was founded in Boston in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), who claimed to have discovered the principles by which Jesus had healed the sick, suggesting that by bringing the material body into harmony with the spiritual, Man can achieve perfection and be healed.
The church was built in the heart of an established residential neighborhood that is now mostly gone.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark on 15 December 1975—the first building to be designated under Berkeley’s Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.
www.berkeleyheritage.com /berkeley_landmarks/1christ_scientist.html   (443 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: First Church of Christ, Scientist
Jesus is the name of the man who, more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true idea of God....
Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ," (Science and Health, pp.
"Christ, or the spiritual idea, appeared to human consciousness as the man Jesus," (Retrospection and Introspection, p.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of Christ, Scientist Corpus Christi is a branch church of The First Church Of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts.
The church is located 1102 Second Street, at the corner of 2nd and Buford.
In order to move away from a personal form of preaching, Mary Baker Eddy ordained two books to be the pastor of the church: the Bible and the Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
www.christiansciencecc.com   (187 words)

  
 Activities in Boston - The First Church of Christ, Scientist
The Church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 with a healing mission that embraces all humanity.
It consists of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts (The First Church of Christ, Scientist), and nearly 2,000 branch churches worldwide.
Among its many activities are church worship services and the publication of The Christian Science Monitor, a variety of magazines, and Web sites to engage the public in a global dialogue about spirituality and its relation to health and well-being.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lancaster, California
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lancaster, is located one block south of Lancaster Boulevard on Fern Avenue at its intersection with Milling Street in the heart of Lancaster, California.
The church also sponsors a public lecture each year at which a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship speaks on the many benefits of Christian Science, often including testimonies of healings of medical conditions, personal relationships, financial situations and other conditions of need.
The same selections are read around the world in Christian Science Churches and Societies, and are from the King James version of the Bible, along with correlative selections from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
www.christianscience.av.org   (1184 words)

  
 First Church of Christ, Scientist Boise Idaho
First Church of Christ, Scientist Boise Idaho, is a branch of the Mother Church in Boston, MA.
Our church was founded on the teachings of Christ Jesus and the spiritual interpretation of the Bible through Christian Science, as discovered by Mary Baker Eddy.
Membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, or any branch church is not a prerequisite for the practice of Christian Science.
www.cschurchboise.org   (175 words)

  
 Christian Science - The Truth that Heals
a branch of The First Church of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, USA is situated in South Park (next to the Swiss Life building).
It wasn't until 1925 that the Society became a fully fledged branch church, First Church  of Christ, Scientist, Sevenoaks, and has been holding weekly Sunday Church Services, a Sunday School, and Wednesday evening Testimony Meetings ever since.
A new church building was completed on its present site, (formerly the boating pool of the Lime Tree Hotel!) in 1936 and in 1950 the two-manual pipe organ was built and installed by J.W. Walker and Sons.
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 Third Church of Christ Scientist
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, founded in 1918, is now one of six Christian Science churches in Washington, D.C. The current church building was designed by the firm I.M.Pei in 1971 as a project which included the 7-story Christian Science Monitor office building and the plaza area between.
This church is a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Ma.
Sunday School classes are held at the same time as church, 10:30am.
www.3rdchristiansciencedc.com   (314 words)

  
 First Church of Christ, Scientist, State College Pennsylvania
First Church of Christ, Scientist, State College Pennsylvania
Contact Us Need a ride to church or to the Reading Room?
Join the First Church of Christ, Scientist, State College, Pennsylvania for the following Christian Science services...
www.abouthealing.org   (173 words)

  
 First Church of Christ Scientist - Bernard Maybeck - Great Buildings Online
"It is possible that if the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, had been destroyed by fire, as so many of Maybeck's works have been, he never would have received the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
His contributions to domestic design are outstanding and his efforts in architectural education noteworthy; but it is space, structure, color and light, that wins immediate admiration from lay and professional viewers.
The church, designed in 1910 when Maybeck was forty-eight years old, is the visible statement of his design philosophy at its most fruitful stage."
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/First_Church_of_Christ.html   (342 words)

  
 Tenth Church South Seattle Christian Science,Science,Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During the week, Christian Scientists around the world unite in study and prayer with one Bible Lesson; on Sundays, Readers elected by the individual congregations present it for the service.
It is comprised of The Mother Church—The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts—and about 2000 branches in 74 countries worldwide.
Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle is one of these branches.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Winnipeg
In 1879, Mary Baker Eddy founded The Church of Christ, Scientist "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." (Church Manual.) Today there are Churches of Christ, Scientist and Christian Science Societies, in 74 countries.
Sunday services and Wednesday evening meetings are held at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Winnipeg, located at 757 Lyon Street.
Together these two books are the pastor for Churches of Christ, Scientist, world-wide, and speak in a way that is relevant to all ages and cultures.
www.mts.net /~fccswpg   (425 words)

  
 First Church of Christ, Scientist
It is a white brick Federal style edifice, with columns and a steeple, and was built in 1939.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Charlotte, started in the Spring of 1900, when several families of the Christian Science denomination living here began to hold services in one of their homes.
In 1905, they were officially recognized as a Christian Science Society, as part of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, which is located in Boston, Massachusetts, the denomination's headquarters.
www.cscharlotte.com   (146 words)

  
 Third Church of Christ Scientist
The Ten Commandments, Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and the Lord's Prayer are among their first lessons.
Take the elevator at church to the top level and you'll find the Sunday School and the children's room.
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist
Directions to Church: University Avenue to light at Rugby Road.
The church is on the corner of 17th and Gordon Avenue.
The Bible Lesson-Sermon, read each Sunday in all branch churches, is made up of references from the King James Version of the Bible and from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
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 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Oregon City, Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We are a branch church of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1875, a woman named Mary Baker Eddy wrote and published a textbook on spiritual healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
She founded the Christian Science Church and was recently elected to the Women's Hall of Fame.
www.bctonline.com /users/mmdrake/fccs   (184 words)

  
 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Burlingame, CA
We are a branch church of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, MA.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA
Spirituality.com is a national community website for study of the Christian Science Textbook, sharing testimonies of healing, discussion of current events, and related items.
www.geocities.com /findin1/FirstChurchCS_Burlingame.html   (245 words)

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