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Excerpt from Christian Science and Kindred Superstitions: Their Facts and Fallacies There has been considerable interest de veloped in the last few years in Christian Science and other schools of thought that pro fess to heal disease, and there are a growing number of people who are allying themselves to these teachings because they or their friends have been cured of imaginary or real sick nesses. The same therapeutic principle runs through all Of these various teachings, how ever differently they may seem to present it. There is very little vital and logical connection between the teachings and efforts to heal. Especially is this so in Christian Science. The utilization Of a great truth in all these systems of healing we endeavor to develop and illus trate in this work, which contains the results Of much research and original thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Christian Science is one of only two indigenous American religions, the other being Mormonism. Yet it has not always been examined seriously within the context of the history of religious ideas and the development of American religious life. Stephen Gottschalk fills this void with an examination of Christian Science’s root concepts—the informing vision and the distinctive mission as formulated by its founder, Mary Baker Eddy. Concentrating on the quarter-century preceding Eddy's death, a period of phenomenal growth for Christian Science, Gottschalk challenges the conventional academic view of the movement as a fringe sect. He finds instead a serious and distinctive, though radical, religious teaching that began to flower just as orthodox Protestantism began to fade. He gives a clear and detailed account of the rancorous controversies between Christian Science and the various mind-cure and occult movements with which it is often associated, and contends that Christian Science appealed to disenchanted Protestants because of its pragmatic quality—a quality that relates it to the mainstream of American culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Excerpt from Christian Science, or the False Christ of 1866: An Examination of the Origin, Animus, Claims, Philosophical Absurdities, Medical Fallacies, and Doctrinal Contents of the New Gospel of Mental Healing The volume of Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., on Faith Healing, Christian Science and Kindred Phe homena is the chief source from which I have drawn my material in discussing the mental healing features of the new gospel, and I count myself very much his debtor. Had he undertaken to present a refutation of Mrs. Eddy's theological vagaries as complete and overwhelming as is his refutation of her mental heal ing philosophy, my task would have been rendered superfluous. None of the treatises on the subject of Mrs. Eddy's errors have, SO far as I am aware, dis cussed, save in a very fragmentary fashion, her radi cal departures from evangelical truth, except the little volume of Mr. J. H. Bates on Christian Science and I ts Problems. This, While it is an admirable discus sion Of the subject in some Of its important bearings, is fatally vitiated by its evolutionary philosophy, by its tacit concessions to the destructive criticism now SO popular in some quarters, and, most of all, by its practical abandonment Of fundamental truths, Such as the doctrines of salvation by grace, the vicarious nature of the atonement, and the necessity of regen eration by the' Spirit of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.