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Periodical: Christian Science Journal

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Christian Science Journal, The.
Other titles: Journal of Christian Science
1883 Bimonthly, then monthly
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: Christian Science Publishing Society. Editor: Mary Baker Glover/Eddy; Emma Curtis Hopkins.
Corporate author: First Church of Christ, Scientist (Boston)1/1, April 14, 1883.

Other Sources:Auburn University; Sara Hightower Regional Library, Georgia; Fuller Theological Seminary; Mary Baker Eddy Library, Massachusetts; LOC; NYPL; University of Texas, Austin; and many other locations in OCLC.
Issues:Christian Science Journal V5 Apr 1887-Mar 1888
Christian Science Journal V6 Apr 1888-Mar 1889
Christian Science Journal V7 Apr 1889-Mar 1890
Christian Science Journal V8 Apr 1890-Mar 1891
Christian Science Journal V9 Apr 1891-Mar 1892
Christian Science Journal V10 Apr 1892-Mar 1893
Christian Science Journal V11 Apr 1893-Mar 1894
Christian Science Journal V12 Apr 1894-Mar 1895
Christian Science Journal V13 Apr 1895-Mar 1896
Christian Science Journal V14 Apr 1896-Mar 1897
Christian Science Journal V15 Apr 1897-Mar 1898
Christian Science Journal V16 Apr 1898-Mar 1899
Christian Science Journal V17 Apr 1899-Mar 1900
Christian Science Journal V18 Apr 1900-Mar 1901
Christian Science Journal V19 Apr 1901-Mar 1902
Christian Science Journal V20 Apr 1902-Mar 1903
Christian Science Journal V21 Apr 1903-Mar 1904
Christian Science Journal V22 Apr 1904-Mar 1905
Christian Science Journal V23 Apr 1905-Mar 1906
Christian Science Journal V24 Apr 1906-Mar 1907
Christian Science Journal V25 Apr 1907-Mar 1908
Christian Science Journal V26 Apr 1908-Mar 1909
Christian Science Journal V27 Apr 1909-Mar 1910
Christian Science Journal V28 Apr 1910-Mar 1911
Christian Science Journal V29 Apr 1911-Mar 1912
Christian Science Journal V30 Apr 1912-Mar 1913
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Christian Science Journal, founded by Mary Baker Eddy at Boston in 1883, is the official organ of the Church of Christ, Scientist and the doctrinal centre of the movement. Its teaching is an absolute idealism: God is infinite Spirit and All-in-All, reality is wholly spiritual, matter and its diseases belong to what Eddy called mortal mind, and healing follows from correct spiritual understanding rather than from medicine. The Journal carries that teaching in three registers at once — theological exposition arguing from Scripture and from the nature of matter, practical instruction and testimony from the church's healing practice, and the institutional business of the Mother Church and its branches, including the directory of authorised practitioners that made the Journal the movement's professional register. Its idiom repays attention. A 'demonstration' is a healing achieved; 'divine Mind' is God; and 'malicious animal magnetism' is the malign mental influence Eddy held to be real and dangerous. Much of that vocabulary passed afterwards to the New Thought movement, whose founders were frequently Eddy's former students, which makes the Journal a source for the whole mental-healing family and not only for its own church.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Christian Science