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The church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 following a personal healing in 1866, which she claimed resulted from reading the Bible.

She called this experience " the falling apple " that led to her discovery of Christian Science.

She was convinced that: " The divine Spirit had wrought the miracle — a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law.

" She spent the next three years investigating the law of God according to the Bible, especially in the words and works of Jesus.

The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's " dual impersonal pastor ".