Church of Divine Science
The Church of Divine Science is a religious group that was founded in the late 19th century in Denver as part of the rapid spread of the New Thought Movement in the United States. Founder of the Church were Malinda Cramer and Nona L. Brooks, both of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby Emma Curtis Hopkins as well - were directly affected - two well-known contemporary Neugeistlern. Nona Brooks has been made familiar by one of Hopkins students with its teachings.
History
The Church of Divine Science was originally founded in the 1880s in San Francisco by Malinda Cramer. Loose connections there were to both Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, founders of Unity Church in Missouri, as well as to Ernest Holmes, who was an ordained Divine Science Minister and later the Church of Religious Science founded. In 1918, there were churches in Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland, Boston, Portland, Spokane, St. Louis and New York City. By 1925, more churches were built in San Diego, Sacramento, Topeka, Washington DC, Cleveland, Illinois, and Iowa. Today, there are still numerous churches of the grouping, the most important and largest in Denver ( Founding Church ), Washington DC, Greater St. Louis to find ( three churches ), Roanoke ( two churches ), San Antonio, Pueblo, and South San Jose Hills are. In recent years, the Church of Divine Science, the Internet and email services extended mainly in the area, and many materials the group circulated online and made available.
Teaching
Divine Science defines itself as " an ordered doctrine of God and the revelation of God in creation. " The basic truth of which is assumed is that the infinite being - namely God - well, equally present in everything and the holistic nature of all creation. God is seen as " pure spirit, absolute, unchangeable, eternal, manifesting itself through creation yet transcendent creation." Evil is therefore neither necessary nor permanently available, and have it in themselves, but only as long as it do not support reality people by believing. As in other New Thought - Churches plays "cure" a central role, as it exist in reality the work of Jesus Christ, who according to the New Testament healed many people. The founder of the church in Denver, Nona Brooks, the doctrine summed up as follows: " Divine Science consists entirely is to practice the presence of God, truth comes from the Bible, positive prayer, contemplation, mediation and practicing the presence of God here and now.. "