Update
Show Summary Details

Page of

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 21 May 2025

Christian Science. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Rennie B. SchoepflinRennie B. Schoepflin

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) “discovered” Christian Science in 1866, when she spontaneously recovered from a severe injury after embracing the beliefs that reality is completely spiritual and that evil—especially sickness and death—is only an illusion. Eddy's understanding of the mind-body relationship and her healing techniques owed much to the principles of homeopathy and the practice of ... ...

Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

Please subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.

For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.