About Mary Baker Eddy

Who is Mary Baker Eddy?

Frequently asked questions (and answers!) about Mary Baker Eddy’s ideas, her life, and her role in the Church of Christ, Scientist—and in the world. Read the FAQ.

Mary Baker Eddy Library

The Mary Baker Eddy Library provides public access and context to original materials and educational experiences about Mary Baker Eddy's life, ideas and achievements.
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Biography of Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) was an influential American author, teacher, and religious leader, noted for her groundbreaking ideas about spirituality and health, which she named Christian Science. She articulated those ideas in her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, first published in 1875. Four years later she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which today has branch churches and societies around the world. In 1908 she launched The Christian Science Monitor, a leading international newspaper, the recipient, to date, of seven Pulitzer Prizes.
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Biographies

		Christian Healer For anyone interested in healing through prayer—as a practical approach to well-being or as a topic of investigation—Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer is an incomparable resource. This biography of an influential 19th-century woman follows Mary Baker Eddy from obscurity to her enormous fame as an eminent thinker and religious leader. From her Puritan upbringing, throughout her life of compassion for others and devotion to God, you can watch her development as an insightful student of the Bible and her rediscovery and practice of healing in the name of Christ Jesus. It also tells of her work to support and spread the practice of this Bible-based healing method: writing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures; founding The Church of Christ, Scientist; teaching metaphysical healing; and founding and publishing magazines and The Christian Science Monitor—all of which continue today. For the first time, all of her more than 300 known documented healings have been collected into one volume. Both engaging for the general reader, and thoroughly footnoted for the scholar, this amplified edition of Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer contains more than 35% new material throughout the book, the result of exhaustive research by one of the book's original authors, Robert Warneck. This engaging book offers an in-depth exploration of a remarkable woman's life—while staying focused on her extraordinary record of Christian healing. Watch a short video introduction of this biography. here
		Mary Baker Eddy In this comprehensive biography, scholar Gillian Gill portrays what she calls Mary Baker Eddy's "astonishing life." After carefully examining both published and un-published historical materials, Gill presents Eddy as a radical Christian thinker and a pioneer in recognizing the connection between spirituality and healing, as well as an extraordinary leader despite the severe obstacles women faced in the nineteenth century. Says Gill of her subject, "From the moment I began to read about [Eddy] she fascinated me, and although she and I appeared to have little or nothing in common, she came to command my respect, my admiration, and even my affections." Available from your local Christian Science Reading Room or purchase online.