Mary Baker Eddy

If you are looking for links to Mary Baker Eddy's works, they are in this separate Christian Science Section. Christian Science is not considered part of New Thought because of three distinctions.

1. "The authoritarianism which has grown out of Christian Scientists' conviction that Mrs. Eddy's teachings constitute a final revelation has no part of New Thought and its outlook." New Thought teaches that "Truth continues to reveal itself, nor has any human organization the authority to declare what Truth is."

2. "Negativism has always dominated and still does dominate the Christian Science movement. Mrs. Gestefeld, once an ardent follower of Mrs. Eddy, could charge that 'Christian Scientists are the most fear ridden people on earth.'" New Thought teaches a positive perspective about life and the universe rooted in the teaching that God is Good, all good and omnipresent.

3. Christian Science is opposed to medical science and this is in opposition to New Thought which does not take a negative position with regard to doctors in the treatment of disease. New Thought teaches that doctors are helpful and good for resolution of disease and in cases in which medicine does not resolve a problem that prayer and seeing the truth of God can go beyond beyond medicine. Today this is referred to as the Mind-Body connection.

This page with links is for historical purposes.

(quotes from Charles S. Braden's Spirits in Rebellion)

Science & Health (First Edition)

Science & Health (Last Edition)

Other Published Writings

On-Line books by Mary Baker Eddy:

• Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures (1910 edition)

• Christian Science versus Pantheism

• The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

  • Part 3

  • Part 4

• Manual of the Mother Church (88th edition, 1910)

• Message to the First Church of Christ, Scientist, or The Mother Church, Boston, June 15, 1902

• Message to the Mother Church, Boston, Mass., June, 1900

• Message to the Mother Church, Boston, Mass., June, 1901

• Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

  • Part 3

  • Part 4

  • Part 5

  • Part 6

• No and Yes

• The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity

• Published Writings.

• Pulpit and Press

• Retrospection and Introspection

• Rudimental Divine Science

• Christian Healing

• Unity of Good