Profile of Christian Science

V.  Endnotes

Endnotes are given by section.  They are by no means the only sources of the above referenced information, but rather represent at least one place where this information can be found. 

Endnotes for Profile Section:

Name: Common knowledge.

Founder: Common knowledge.

Dates of Birth and Death: Silberger, Julius. Mary Baker Eddy Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1980. 21, 240.

Birthplace: Ibid., 14.

Year Founded: Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page: http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm How/Why?:

(1) Gomes, Peter J. Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership The Bookwire Web Page: http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/life/with-bleeding.html

(2) Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm

(3) Taylor, Eugene in Miller, Timothy, ed.  America's Alternative Relgions Albany, SUNY Press, 1995.  82.

(4) Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page: http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm

(5) Ibid.

(6) Schoepflin, Rennie B. "The Christian Science Tradition." Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions eds.  Ronald Numbers and Darrel Amundsen.  New York: Macmillan, 1986.

(7) Silberger, Julius.  Mary Baker Eddy Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1980.

(8) Alnor, William M. "News Watch: Financial Crisis Rocks Christian Science." Christian Research Journal Spring 1992; 5.

Sacred Texts:

(1) The Official First Church of Christ, Scientist Web Page: http://www.tfccs.com

(2) Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm

Sect or Cult:

(1) SOC 257 Web Page Lecture: Who are the cults?:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/lectures/whocult.html

(2) Melton, J. Gordon Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986. 23-28.

(3) Ibid.

Size of Group:

(1) Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm

(2) Schoepflin, Rennie B. "The Christian Science Tradition." Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions Ronald Numbers and Darrel Amundsen, eds.  New York: Macmillan, 1986.

(3) Alnor, William M.  "News Watch: Financial Crisis Rocks Christian Science." Christian Research Journal Spring 1992; 5.

(4) Mary Baker Eddy Institute, The Manual Web Page:
http://www.mbeinstitute.org:80/healing/Other/Manual.html Endnotes for Beliefs of the Group Section:

(1) Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance Christian Science Web Page:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_sci.htm

(2) Christian Way Homepage: http://www.goodnet.com/~calvary/ (CAIC site note: updated link here)

(3) The Watchman Expositor on the First Church of Christ, Scientist Web Page:
http:rampages.onramp.net/~watchman/jesuschs.htm

(4) Melton, J. Gordon.  Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. 25.

(5) Ibid. 28.

(6) Schoepflin, Rennie B. "The Christian Science Tradition." Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions Ronald Numbers and Darrel Amundsen, eds.  New York: Macmillan, 1986

(7) Ibid.

(8) Melton, J. Gordon.  Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992.  24-25.  Also: Peel, Robert.  Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition New York: Crossroad, 1988.

Endnotes for Contemporary Issues and Controversies Section:

(1) Fraser, Caroline.  "Suffering Children and the Christian Science Church." Altantic Monthly Apr. 1995; 105-106.

(2) "Christian Science Penalty Overturned." Christian Century 3 May 1995; 477-478.

(3) "Christian Science Hearing Refused." Christian Century 28 Feb.  1996; 223-224.

(4) Alnor, William M. "News Watch: Financial Crisis Rocks Christian Science." Christian Research Journal Spring 1992; 5.

(5) Ibid.

(6) Ibid.

(7) Ibid.