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Women and the Churches

Women and the Churches. American Religious History – Post Civil War to Present Dr. Donald E. Harpster. Women and the Churches. Antoinette Brown Blackwell Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The Women’s Bible Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science Conclusions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921).

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Women and the Churches

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  1. Women and the Churches American Religious History – Post Civil War to Present Dr. Donald E. Harpster

  2. Women and the Churches • Antoinette Brown Blackwell • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The Women’s Bible • Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science • Conclusions

  3. Antoinette Brown Blackwell(1825-1921) • Admitted to Oberlin College in Ohio and applied for admission to theological department to be a minister • Oberlin initially let her go to school but did not want to give her degree • Finally graduated and ordained (1853) • Never given a pulpit in Congregational Church

  4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) • 1848 Seneca Falls Convention • President of National Women’s Suffrage Association • Wrote TheWoman’s Bible • Denied biblical teachings that woman brought sin and death into the world, marriage is her bondage, childbearing her curse, and intellectual dependence her fate Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

  5. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866) • Blacksmith’s son born in Lebanon, New Hampshire • Clockmaker from Belfast, Maine • Attended demonstrations of “animal magnetism” in early 1830’s • Traveling mesmerist or hypnotist – make diagnoses and prescriptions • Search for the “one principle” explaining all cures

  6. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866) • Concluded disease was an error of the mind • After 1859 lived in Portland, Maine • Emphasized that man was a spiritual being, and the wisdom common to all men is God in man, and that the soul, thus, stands in immediate relation to the divine mind • Interested in Bible • Used terms “Christian Science” and “science of health” • Said his healings were similar to those of Jesus • Would have been forgotten but healed a very remarkable woman in 1862

  7. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Mary Morse Baker (Eddy) • 1821-1910 • Born on farm in Bow, New Hampshire • Grew up in normal household

  8. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Mary Morse Baker (Eddy) • Had spinal and nervous ailments – unable to attend school regularly • Married George Washington Glover in Sanbornton Bridge, N.H. (1843), old friend and neighbor, died a year later – impoverished and sickly widow for 9 years • Married Dr. Daniel Patterson, an iterant dentist, move around frequently, still in poor health

  9. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Mary Morse Baker (Eddy) • Trip to Portland and healed by Quimby in October 1862 • Vigorous enough to climb 182 steps of city hall tower • Studied with Quimby and expounded his theories • Living in Quincy, Massachusetts received news of Quimby’s death in 1866

  10. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Beginning of Christian Science • She slipped on ice and hurt back, on the 3rd day after reading Matthew 9:2, arose from bed, healed • “And behold they brought to him a paralytic, lying on his bed, and when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, ‘Take heart, my son, your sins are forgiven.” • Spent next 10 years as healer and teacher

  11. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Organization of Church • Lynn, Mass. Home became “Christian Scientists” home • First public Christian Science service on June 6, 1875 • First edition of Science and Health in fall 1875 • Church of Christ (Scientist) formally chartered in 1879 • Asa Gilbert Eddy whom she married in 1877, helped her until his death in 1882 • Massachusetts Metaphysical College – trained Christian Scientist practitioners who went across nation and organized societies

  12. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Growth • Significant growth in last decades of 19th century • 85, 717 (1906) • 202,098 (1926) • 268,915 (1936)

  13. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Beliefs • Relationship between false belief and ill health • Disease as a mental error, mind over matter • Jesus as the first Scientist • Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures is authoritative interpretation of the Bible

  14. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Basic Postulate of Christian Science • God is all, the only Being, Mind • Real man, not the seeming or mortal man is a divine reflection of God • So-called objective world of senses is unreal or mere “belief” • Matter and death are mortal illusions, as are sin, pain, and disease

  15. Mary Baker Eddy & Christian Science • Eddy died on December 3, 1910, 89 years, probably of pneumonia, estate valued at over $2 million that she left to church • Positives • Brought health, serenity, and prosperity to many people • Stimulated interest in healing ministry which Protestant churches had virtually abandoned, despite its prominence in New Testament • Early years of both Quimby’s and her ministry performed great service by reducing number of Americans who were exposed to unregulated and largely uneducated medical profession

  16. Conclusions • Antoinette Brown Blackwell – Ordination of Women • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and The Women’s Bible • Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science

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