Mary Baker Eddy was a 19th Century woman way ahead of her time — a scholar, author, teacher, speaker, healer, and a spiritual Truth seeker motivated by love for mankind. She knew the Bible well and searched it to understand how Jesus healed. Through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration she discovered a practical science behind his healing works and named it Christian Science.
She triumphed over many personal challenges and became well-known and respected by notable scientists, theologians, women’s rights advocates, and physicians who saw her heal cases they could not. Exploring the nature of consciousness and health, she wrote Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, interpreting the Bible spiritually, and explaining universal laws of spiritual healing anyone can practice.
Eddy founded a worldwide church and an international Pulitzer-prize winning daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, still operating today, with the mission “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” She promoted universal human rights, health care, and social justice from a deeply moral and spiritual basis. She radically relied on God, understood to be infinite Love, Life and Truth, and entirely good.
Get to know Mary Baker Eddy :
• Visit the Mary Baker Eddy Library.
• “Spiritual revolutionaries“
• “Spirituality and women’s rights” (1-hour audio program)
• “Portrait of equality”
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