How old is georgia engel

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She had always been open about the role grace and faith played in her understanding of the world, telling the New York Times in a interview, "Grace has been shown me all my life," but almost never spoke of her faith: Christian Science.

The only time she even spoke about the faith seems to be during a interview with The Morning Call, where she explained how she had served as a 'Reader' for Church of Christ, Scientist. Because the church has no clergy, sermons or rituals, and performs no baptisms, marriages, or burials, its main activity is a service where a person designated as a 'Reader' reads out texts from the Bible and 'Science and Health' — its two central religious texts — as well as hymns from 'Christian Science Hymnal.

I've devoted the last three years to reading. That's why I had a low profile. It was a full-time job and I loved doing that and wouldn't have traded it, selecting and preparing the readings from the Bible to be read in churches all over the world.

But her silence is not too surprising considering the controversial natures of its origin and its practices. It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who whose book 'Science and Health,' along with the Bible, as previously mentioned, were its central texts.

While there seems to be nothing wrong there, a closer look at 'Science and Health' reveals one of its most troubling aspects, possibly one that may have cost Engel her life. It states that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. To get more particular, adherents of Christian Science subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism which insists that reality is purely spiritual and that the material world is nothing but an illusion.

This also includes a view that disease is just a mental error rather than a physical disorder, and that, therefore, the sick must be treated by prayer and not medicine; i.