Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.) [Paperback]

Mary Baker Eddy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1994

First published in 1875 and read by more than eight million people, this nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. To attract a new audience, this time-honored message of healing has a powerful new cover, easy-to-read page layout, and word index. Named one of "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World."

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From the Publisher

The author, Mary Baker Eddy, devoted more than four decades to refining this message of hope, healing, comfort and spiritual strength. First published in 1875, this book has a 125-year history of inspiring and healing readers worldwide. It is published in English and in 16 different bi-lingual translations and has sold more than ten million copies. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) continues to be one of the most influential authors on the relation of mind, body, and spirit. She was a remarkable lecturer, reformer, spiritual healer, and religious figure whose ideas challenged mainstream beliefs about the nature of existence and the power of prayer to heal. Although she struggled in her early adult years with poor health and financial and family hardship, her deep love of the Bible was a continual source of comfort and support. The insights she gained transformed her own life, and formed the basis for the pioneering ideas in Science and Health.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: The Christian Science Board of Directors (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879520388
• ISBN-13: 978-0879520380
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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86 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The textbook of "how to" heal through prayer, September 29, 1999

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Rosemary Thornton "Niece of Addie Hoyt Fargo ... (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.) (Paperback)

I love this book. Rather than say what I thought of the words in this book, I'd like to say what those words did to change my life.

Through reading this book, Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy, I gained an understanding of the richness and depth of the Holy Bible.

As I worked my way through Science and Health, I found myself using less medicine, enjoying better health and above all *ABOVE ALL*, I found a sense of peace I'd never known. The peace that passeth all understanding.

What a sweet and blessed relief that was for me and my family.

Since childhood, I'd suffered from frequent bouts of sinus troubles and sore throats. About two years after I began reading Mrs. Eddy's book, those troubles simply disappeared and never recurred.

Ever since I was young, a felt an intense, even insatiable longing to know "the meaning of life". I read countless books on countless religions and belief systems, but when I studied Science & Health, I remembered thinking, "This woman has got something here..." That longing to know more about life was satisfied by reading her book and digging into the Bible with new understanding.

Thomas Moore said "Earth has no sorrow, that heaven cannot heal." Science and Health proves Moore's statement and shows how heaven [God] *does* heal.

Rose Thornton

92 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well, I love this book, April 5, 2004

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T. Sparfeld (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.) (Paperback)

The reviews here are all pretty much one way or another. Most readers seem to like Science and Health, while many others have some strong negative comments/reviews. It should be addressed here, however, that many reviews are about the Christian Science Church rather than the book itself.

Some individuals have had negative experiences with the Church/religion, and while their experiences are certainly valid, I am not about to defend the shortcomings of a human institution in this space. I do feel the need, however, to distinguish between a religion and its book. People, for example, may have had problems with the Catholic faith in their life, but that's no reason to start bashing the Bible or giving it a one-star rating.

What few seem to discuss here is the book's central thesis, that God exists and that His divine laws should be directly applicable to us in our daily lives. I personally happen to agree with this statement, but I can also understand why some out there would disagree. Maybe they don't believe in God, or don't believe in Jesus' teachings. Maybe they don't think that God can affect their daily lives.

There are 100 pages of testimonials of people who were healed of various ailments from reading this book. Will your life be permanently changed by reading this book? It could. At the very least, you will read a book that makes you think about your personal relationship with God. For me, that's something that is without price.

73 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seems Mary Baker Eddy Was Years Ahead of Her Time, April 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.) (Paperback)

It is interesting to read other reviews from readers of this book. It earns either 5 stars or just 1, depending apparently where the readers are coming from, either for or against the religion Mary Baker Eddy established called Christian Science

This woman was early and bold, as a female in the 19th century when women had such limited powers and personal rights, to write and to live by what was considered to be radical thinking at that time. Her concept was principally that matter is not what it appears to be and that we are fundamentally spiritual beings. Now 125 years after the release of the book, respected authors such as Deepak Chopra, great humanitarians seeking spiritual truths such as Sir John Templeton and others appear to be agreeing, by saying that there is still much to learn about spiritually that is more than meets the "human eye". We are just scratching the surface of whatever reality really is and Mrs. Eddy pioneered this effort as one of the first.

One reader giving the book but one star states that healing through its "teachings" does not work, that evidence is only anecdotal. I can vouch that my grandfather was completely healed of stomach cancer on the very night he was expected to die. The disease had been diagnosed and a doctor was in attendance in a hospital room. That is not anecdotal. I was in the room.

One thing that I personally liked about reading the book was the author's desire to "bless all mankind". She didn't seem to be promoting her church, but wanted to share what she thought she had learned with people of all religious persuasions. It may have been one of the first "self help" books. Written 125 years ago, it seems to be one of the most enduring.

The book made me think and joins other good books in respecting the ancient scriptures while providing some illumination of them.