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A new Christian identity : Christian Science origins and experience in American culture / Amy B. Voorhees.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781469662374
  • 146966237X
  • 9781469662367
  • 1469662361
Other title:
  • Christian Science origins and experience in American culture
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A New Christian IdentityDDC classification:
  • 289.5/73 23
LOC classification:
  • BX6941
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

Description based upon print version of record.