![]() Rather than reading that as my second or third paper, I now go online and browse Slate and Salon and the political sites, and I can read any other paper I like. “That’s the real crisis for papers like this. With even small newspapers being squeezed by the Web, it makes sense that a “second read” like the Monitor would be harder hit. “Obviously, this is going to help with our costs, but it also enables us to put much more emphasis on the Web and basically put our reporting assets and our editorial assets where we think growth will be in a very tough industry in the future, which we think is the Web,” said Editor John Yemma, who was The Boston Globe’s multimedia editor before he moved to the Monitor in June.Ĭutting print editions also will help the paper reduce its dependence on sizable subsidies from its owner, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which now provides more than half its operating budget, Yemma said.Īndie Tucher, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School Of Journalism, said the Monitor has traditionally been a newspaper people read for in-depth articles after they get local news from a local or state newspaper. ![]() The Monitor was one of the first newspapers in the country to put content online, beginning in 1995, when correspondent David Rohde was taken prisoner in Bosnia. The newspaper gets about 5 million page-views per month, compared with about 4 million five years ago and 1 million a decade ago. Eddy and the History of Christian Science, (University of Nebraska Press, 1993).The Monitor’s circulation has fallen from a peak of 223,000 in 1970 to about 50,000 now, while its online traffic has soared. Lucia Greenhouse, fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science (Broadway Books, 2012). Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, (First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1941). Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings, (Trustees under with will of Mary Baker, G. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, (Christian Science Publishing Society, 1934). See "Is Jesus the ONLY WAY to Heaven?" below. God is the sovereign judge and sends some to Hell and others to Heaven.Ī sinner makes his own hell by doing evil, and the saint his own heaven by doing right. ![]() People, like God, are immortal spirit or mind and therefore do not die. Sin, death, disease, and pain, are not real they are merely illusions.ĭeath is an illusion. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God. People are divine spirits, or part of God.īible is the inerrant, infallible, inspired Word of God.īible is to be interpreted by Eddy's writings. Redefines the Trinity as life, truth, and love.īelieves in Death and Resurrection of Christ.ĭenies the Death and Resurrection of Christ.Ĭhrist secured the salvation of his people at Calvary. Eddy denied that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. There is one true and living God, who exists as three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The table below compares and contrasts a few of the teachings of Christian Science with Christianity. Though some later left it, several well-known individuals have been deceived by this cult, including: Ellen DeGeneres, Robin Williams, Kelsey Grammer, Henry Fonda, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Joan Crawford, Marlyn Monroe, Doris Day, Robert Duvall, Val Kilmer, Jim Henson, Alan Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, etc. She later founded a college and published a newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. Christian churches would not accept her teachings, so in 1879 she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist. In 1877 she married one of her students, Asa Gilbert Eddy. ![]() In 1875, she published Science and Health, explaining the "science" of her healing method(s). She taught her system to numerous men and women. She later called this the moment she discovered "Christian Science." She asked for her Bible and while reading it she suddenly recovered. As the story goes in 1866, Mary Patterson (name change to Mary Baker Eddy after her marriage) slipped on some ice and was in critical condition. Christian Science was founded by Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910). Southeastern Baptist Theological SeminaryĬhristian Science is a cult.He Gave Us Scripture: Foundations of Interpretation.Your Kingdom Come: The Doctrine of Eschatology.Kingdom, Covenants & Canon of the Old Testament.Kingdom & Covenant in the New Testament. ![]()
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