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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Summary
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is, along with the Bible, one of the central texts of the Christian Science religion. Mary Baker Eddy described it as her "most important work". She began writing it in February 1872, and the first edition was published in 1875. However, she would continue working on it and making changes for the rest of her life.
The book was selected as one of the "75 Books By Women Whose Words Have Changed The World", by the Women's National Book Association.
As of 2001, the book had sold over nine million copies.
Christian Science develops its theology and its healing method from these statements contained in Science and Health:
"God is All-in all."
"God is good."
"God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind."
The latest edition of the book consists of a short preface, the main section, a "Key to the Scriptures", and Fruitage. Some editions include a word index.
The main section is 500 pages long and comprises chapters titled as follows:
Prayer
Atonement and Eucharist
Marriage
Christian Science versus Spiritualism
Animal Magnetism Unmasked
Science, Theology, Medicine
Physiology
Footsteps of Truth
Creation
Science of Being
Some Objections Answered
Christian Science Practice (which explains how healing is undertaken)
Teaching Christian Science
Recapitulation (the text used for class instruction in Christian Science healing).
This section is 100 pages long, and comprises
Genesis (a detailed analysis of the two versions of the creation story given in Genesis)
The Apocalypse (an analysis of parts of Revelation)
Glossary (giving the spiritual meaning of 114 Biblical terms)
This 100-page-long section consists of 84 testimonials of the healing power derived from reading the text in Science and Health. There are descriptions of addiction, asthma, broken bone, cataract, cancer, deafness, eczema, a fibroid tumor, and rheumatism. Prior intervention by physicians is mentioned in 50 of these cases, and one relates a confirmatory X-ray by a physician.
The first edition was copyrighted in 1875.
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