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A New Christian Identity
Amy B. Voorhees
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Religion/Theologie
Beschreibung
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. Assessing the experiences of everyday adherents after
Science and Health's appearance in 1875, Voorhees shows how Christian Science developed a dialogue with both mainstream and alternative Christian theologies. Viewing God's benevolent
allness as able to heal human afflictions through prayer, Christian Science emerged as an anti-mesmeric, restorationist form of Christianity that interpreted the Bible and approached emerging modern medicine on its own terms.
Voorhees traces a surprising story of religious origins, cultural conversations, and controversies. She contextualizes Christian Science within a wide swath of cultural and religious movements, showing how Eddy and her followers interacted regularly with Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, Catholics, Jews, New Thought adherents, agnostics, and Theosophists. Influences flowed in both directions, but Voorhees argues that Christian Science was distinct not only organizationally, as scholars have long viewed it, but also theologically, a singular expression of Christianity engaging modernity with an innovative, healing rationale.
Kundenbewertungen
vernacular or lived religious history, millennialism, premillennialism, postmillennialism, and transmillennialism in America, women’s religious history, Christian metaphysics and religion in America, comparative religion in nineteenth century America, sacred texts and world religions, Christian Science, The Mother Church, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, race and slavery and religion in America, Theosophy and New Thought history in America, African American religious history, the history of sacred texts in America, Baptist and, Mary Baker Eddy, women’s suffrage and religion in the long nineteenth century, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, religion and healing, American religious history