Christian Science Church hymnody and hymnals

Origins and chief tenets of the Christian Science Church The Christian Science Church or, as it is more formally called, the First Church of Christ (Scientist) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy* (1821-1910). Eddy’s seminal publication, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, appeared in Boston in 1875 followed by the first official denominational hymnal (Boston, 1892). Reading the Bible alongside Science and Health is fundamental to the Christian Science tradition. The most notable feature of Eddy’s theology is that there is only the spiritual realm, that all creation is spiritual. Thus health is a matter of correct prayer and belief...