About
“Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.”
-Mary Baker Eddy
About Us
Most people want the same things — health, stability, and to have a good life. Throughout his lifetime, Christ Jesus responded to those desires by preaching the gospel of God's kingdom and by healing the sick and those who had lost their way. He taught his followers how to be Christian healers, too. Christian Scientists around the world strive to follow his example in their own lives and communities.
Our Branch Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist Boise Idaho, is a branch of the Mother Church in Boston, MA. Our church was founded on the teachings of Christ Jesus and the spiritual interpretation of the Bible through Christian Science, as discovered by Mary Baker Eddy. The term Christian Science refers to the universal, practical system of spiritual, prayer-based healing, available and accessible to everyone. Christian Science, which is practiced by people of all faiths, is fully explained in Eddy's primary text on spirituality and healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Christian Science enables us to understand our relationship to a loving God and our relationship to each other. This understanding improves our lives, our communities and the world.
Christian Science
Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, defined Christian Science as “the law of God, the law of good . . . ” (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1). She’d learned that God is infinite Love, and completely good. A clear glimpse of this through prayer has power to heal and transform anyone.
Tenets of Christian Science
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 496–497)
Below are a few tenets—or key points—rooted in the Bible, that briefly summarize the teachings of Christian Science.
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, 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.