Summary of Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod write by Everest Media. This book was released on 2022-07-25T22:59:00Z. Summary of Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In Christian Science, we know that there is no illness. No disease. No contagion. We are not sick. We are God’s perfect children. We are all going to work very hard to keep our thoughts elevated. #2 I had learned in Sunday school that Christian Science was a real science that worked. It was a comfort to know that everything the church taught was real, and that error, disease, and death were not real. #3 I love going to Grandma’s house. It is the best place in the world for me. I love the smell of coffee, and Grandma keeps a candy dish of lemon drops next to her ashtray on the small round kitchen table. #4 My brother and I had chicken pox, and we were sick for a week. We came to Grandma’s house, where we were fed applesauce and cinnamon toast. We sang Mother’s Evening Prayer together.
fathermothergod
fathermothergod - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook fathermothergod write by Lucia Greenhouse. This book was released on 2012-08-28. fathermothergod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A courageous and finely crafted portrait of a young woman struggling with her family, her faith, and that awkward space between being a child and growing into adulthood.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) “Unimaginable . . . As much an indictment of Christian Science as it is a memoir of her family’s experience of loss.”—O: the Oprah Magazine Lucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood, but when it came to accidents and illnesses, her parents didn’t take their kids to the doctor’s office—they prayed and called a Christian Science practitioner. As a teenager, her visit to an ophthalmologist created a family crisis, and she was a sophomore in college before she had her first annual physical. In December 1985, when Lucia and her siblings, by then young adults, discovered that their mother was sick, they came face-to-face with the reality that they had few—if any—options to save her. Powerless as their mother suffered, they were grief-stricken, angry, and confused. In this haunting, beautifully written book, Lucia pulls back the curtain on the Christian Science faith and chronicles its complicated legacy for her family. At once an essentially American coming-of-age story and a glimpse into the practices of a religion few really understand, fathermothergod is an unflinching exploration of personal loss and the boundaries of family and faith.
Fathermothergod
Fathermothergod - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fathermothergod write by Lucia Greenhouse. This book was released on 2011. Fathermothergod available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the author's coming-of-age in a family whose Christian Science faith forbade consultations with doctors or the use of mainstream medicine, a belief system that caused doubt and bitter divides when the author's mother became seriously ill. A first book. 30,000 first printing.
Healing the Nation
Healing the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healing the Nation write by L. Ashley Squires. This book was released on 2017-08-07. Healing the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising history of how Christian Science swept through America, reflected in literature of the time by Twain, Dreiser, Cather, and more. Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy’s Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing and most controversial religious movements in the United States, and it is no accident that its influence touched the lives and work of many American writers, including Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, and Mark Twain. Squires focuses on personal stories of sickness and healing—whether supportive or deeply critical of Christian Science’s recommendations—penned in a moment when the struggle between religion and science framed debates about how the United States was to become a modern nation. With tales of outsized personalities, outlandish rhetoric, and bitter debate, Squires examines how the poorly understood Christian Science movement contributed to popular narratives about how to heal the nation and advance the cause of human progress.
God's Perfect Child
God's Perfect Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Perfect Child write by Caroline Fraser. This book was released on 2018-06-19. God's Perfect Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Christian Scientist Caroline Fraser comes the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements. Millions of Americans – from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman – have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science was based on a belief that intense contemplation of the perfection of God can heal all ills – an extreme expression of the American faith in self-reliance. In this unflinching investigation, Caroline Fraser, herself raised in a Scientist household, shows how the Church transformed itself from a small, eccentric sect into a politically powerful and socially respectable religion, and explores the human cost of Christian Science's remarkable rise. Fraser examines the strange life and psychology of Mary Baker Eddy, who lived in dread of a kind of witchcraft she called Malicious Animal Magnetism. She takes us into the closed world of Eddy's followers, who refuse to acknowledge the existence of illness and death and reject modern medicine, even at the cost of their children's lives. She reveals just how Christian Science managed to gain extraordinary legal and Congressional sanction for its dubious practices and tracks its enormous influence on new-age beliefs and other modern healing cults. A passionate exposé of zealotry, God's Perfect Child tells one of the most dramatic and little-known stories in American religious history.
