The essential teachings of Christian Science are based on the all-power and ever-presence of an all-good God, whom we also refer to as Love. Our concept of God is perhaps a little different than taught in other communities. Our God is not a super human, judging right and wrong.

In 1879 Eddy and a group of 15 followers founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, with the aim of reinstating “primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” It was not until her years in Boston (1882–89), however, that the movement began to grow, largely through the healing work performed by Eddy's students ...

Her conviction that the cause of disease was rooted in the human mind and that it was in no sense God's will was confirmed by her contact from 1862 to 1865 with Phineas P. Quimby of Maine, a pioneer in what would today be called suggestive therapeutics.