jjares reviewed Mary Baker Eddy: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History) on + 3297 more book reviews
Having never heard of Mary Baker Eddy before, I was interested to read of her life. She seems to have been a strong-willed individual who was called to religion at an early age. She also seems to have been afflicted with various illnesses over her life. After googling Eddy's name, I found that she believed that sickness was an illusion that could be corrected by prayer alone. This book did not say this in so many words, but it implied it.
I don't understand why this book was so evasive about Eddy's beliefs. She determined that disease is a mental error rather than a physical disorder. The sick should be treated, not by medicine, but by 'a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.' (Eddy, Science and Health: "Question: What is God?")
If you pay attention to any news, you will be aware that many Christian Scientists have been prosecuted in recent years because they withhold medicine or surgery from family members, and then those members die. That may be why their numbers are diminishing. None of this was mentioned in this book.
I don't understand why this book was so evasive about Eddy's beliefs. She determined that disease is a mental error rather than a physical disorder. The sick should be treated, not by medicine, but by 'a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.' (Eddy, Science and Health: "Question: What is God?")
If you pay attention to any news, you will be aware that many Christian Scientists have been prosecuted in recent years because they withhold medicine or surgery from family members, and then those members die. That may be why their numbers are diminishing. None of this was mentioned in this book.
