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A new Christian identity : Christian Science origins and experience in American culture / Amy B. Voorhees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voorhees, Amy B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian Science--History.
- Christian Science.
- Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910. Science and health.
- Eddy, Mary Baker.
- Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- 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.
- 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
- Appendix: Major copyrighted editions and content revisions of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908549-7-1
- 979-88-908549-8-8
- 1-4696-6235-3
- 1-4696-6237-X
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