| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A restoration story and a new history -- Part I. Origins. Youth -- Loss and exploration -- Unrest -- Portland -- Accident and recovery -- Findings: Part I -- Part II. Text. Genesis manuscript -- Claiming her experience -- Science and health -- Readership rhetoric, and transmillennial religion -- Findings: Part II -- Part III. Revision. Reform and salvation -- Naming her experience -- Holy and unholy challenges: divine healing and theosophy -- Findings: Part III -- Part IV. Pastor. Church body -- Public perceptions, private experiences -- Final words -- Into the twentieth century -- Findings: Part IV -- Christian Science identity |
| Summary |
"In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, rather than Eddy's already well known biography. Introducing the experiences of everyday adherents from the earliest days of Science and Health's appearance in 1875, Voorhees shows how Christian Science came into dialogue with more mainstream Christian theologies of healing and health. Viewing the material world as illusory and sickness as a state that can be corrected by prayer, Christian Science emerged as an anti-mesmeric, millennialist form of Christianity that interpreted the Bible and approached emerging modern medicine on its own terms"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.
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Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910. Science and health.
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| SUBJECT |
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910. Science and health
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Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910 fast |
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Science and health (Eddy, Mary Baker) fast |
| Subject |
Christian Science -- History
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RELIGION / Christianity / Christian Science
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Christian Science
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469662374 |
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146966237X |
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9781469662367 |
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1469662361 |
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