A new Christian identity : Christian Science origins and experience in American culture /
"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 adhe...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.