TY  - BOOK
AU  - Voorhees,Amy B.
TI  - A new Christian identity: Christian Science origins and experience in American culture 
SN  - 9781469662374
AV  - BX6941 
U1  - 289.5/73 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Eddy, Mary Baker,
KW  - Science and health (Eddy, Mary Baker)
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian Science
KW  - History
KW  - Science chrétienne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Christian Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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