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Church of Christ, Scientist
Originally published in the 1982 pamphlet titled "Christian Science: A Century Later"
A conviction that Christianity is, above all, meant to be lived and demonstrated.
In an address given in Concord, New Hampshire, in the winter of 1899, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, spoke broadly of Christianity as "not a creed or dogma,—a philosophical phantasm,—nor the opinions of a sect. . . ." Christianity, said Mary Baker Eddy, "is the summons of divine Love for man to be Christlike—to emulate the words and the works of our great Master." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany,p. 148.
This rousing, slightly unorthodox view of Christianity as a dynamic "summons ... to be Christlike," rather than a system of "creed or dogma," may help to explain the form of the church that she had founded some two decades earlier.
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