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From Pat Deveney's database:
This is an absolutely undistinguished Christian Science journal of the early period, with brief doctrinal exegesis of issues and avoidance of controversy. Troup was an early officer of the |
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| Boston Christian Scientist V1 1889 | |
| Boston Christian Scientist V2 1890 | |
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The Boston Christian Scientist belongs to the formative Boston years of Christian Science, around 1889 and 1890. Its pages carry the movement's doctrine in the vocabulary Mary Baker Eddy had given it: mortal mind, divine Mind, the unreality of matter and of loss, and demonstration — the word Christian Science used for a healing accomplished through spiritual understanding rather than through medicine. The surviving issues are largely devotional and consolatory in tone, arguing omnipresence against the evidence of the senses and comfort against bereavement. Those same years were the years of the mind-cure secession, when teachers trained in Eddy's classes left to found what would become New Thought, and papers outside her church used the name Christian Scientist freely; the phrase divine science appears here too. Whether this title spoke for the church or beside it, its language is the shared metaphysical-healing language of Boston at the moment the two movements were separating. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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