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A New Christian Identity
Amy B. Voorhees
其他書名
ChristianScience Origins and Experience in American Culture
出版
University of North Carolina Press
, 2021
主題
RELIGION / Christianity / Christian Science
ISBN
146966237X
9781469662374
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bSORzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"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"--