{"product_id":"a-new-christian-identity-amy-b-voorhees-9781469662350","title":"A New Christian Identity: Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture","description":"In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, \u003ci\u003eScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures\u003c\/i\u003e. Assessing the experiences of everyday adherents after \u003ci\u003eScience and Health\u003c\/i\u003e's appearance in 1875, Voorhees shows how Christian Science developed a dialogue with both mainstream and alternative Christian theologies. Viewing God's benevolent \u003ci\u003eallness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVoorhees 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy B. Voorhees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469662353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469662350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2021","brand":"Amy B. Voorhees","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993761546495,"sku":"9781469662350","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6eee225-7673-447d-9dfd-d4da1bed6712.jpg?v=1683326165","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-new-christian-identity-amy-b-voorhees-9781469662350","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}