Expanding the narrative of Christian Science
Paralleling the past and present for a future with greater meaning
Humanity shows a need for spirituality and for a God of Love but also needs to apply logic to make sense of it all. To nurture understandable spirituality, Healing Science Today presents Parallel Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The volume offers side-by-side text of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health and text from the seventh edition of 21st Century Science and Health, produced by Cheryl Petersen.
A 19th century explorer of holistic well-being, Mary Baker Eddy discovered the restorative force of scientific spirituality. She called it Christian Science and explained its method and treatment in Science and Health, first published in 1875. Eddy revised the textbook nonstop until her death in 1910. Her last edition was sourced for Parallel Science and Health.
“While I read many useful books about a practical spirit and spirituality, Science and Health grabs my attention with statements like, ‘The precise form of God must be of small importance in comparison with the sublime question, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?’ But many of the statements in Eddy’s Science and Health are not timeless so I began modernizing the text twenty years ago with beneficial results,” explains Petersen, author of 21st Century Science and Health, now in its 7th edition.
Parallel Science and Health breaks from one-sided narratives of Christian Science or Mary Baker Eddy.
A product of her time, Eddy contributed to new critical research of the Bible. Her analysis of scriptures prioritizes spiritual interpretation over literal. Eddy explained that an ever-operative Christ-spirit shines through words from Genesis to Revelation. Parallel Science and Health was written to help advance your faith to an inspired logic in everyday life. The logic of Love remains transformative today.
Materials Scientist Dr. Holly Shulman, Ph.D., said, “Petersen’s contemporary translations make it clear that Christian Science is not a religion but a mindful, spiritual method of discovering divine inspiration in anything we do, observe, or read, and of tangibly experiencing the truth of love and the love of truth.”
Parallel Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is available online at Amazon books.
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Healing Science Today
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