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Christian Science (the Church of Christ, Scientist)

Movement·Founded 1879 CE·The church does not publish membership figures and is forbidden to by its own Manual, Article VIII, Section 28. Independent estimates for the late twentieth century range from under 100,000 to several hundred thousand and are not reconcilable. What can be counted is public: practitioners and teachers listed in the Christian Science Journal in the United States fell from 4,965 in January 1971 to fewer than a thousand, and branch churches from roughly 1,800 to about 1,000.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → Christian Science (the Church of Christ, Scientist)

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →

M Mary Baker Eddy — Discoverer, Founder and Leader. A poor, chronically ill New England widow who at forty-five was a patient of the mental healer Phineas Quimby, at fifty-four published Science and Health, and by her death in 1910 had built a church, a publishing house and a newspaper, and had written a book of by-laws that still governs it from beyond her grave. Domain The discovery of Christian Science, the Manual, the church's whole structureStanding Not worshipped, and the Manual forbids personal devotion to her; her books are read at every service Meet them — context →