Factual and very well written.

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	• God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church Caroline Fraser Holt Paperbacks, 2000 - 592 pages average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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moving and informative

Yes, I did read this book. When I was in my 20's I was a avid C.S. student
Even though I like maybe loved the progress I thought I made. I never really never made any headway out of the pull of materialistic thinking
I came across some other literture which helped me understand that the way
the church is run will cause it's failure. But it won't go willingly. It's too bad. I agree that they need to get rid of the stoic reading
of the Bible & S&H, Let individuals read those lesson's on their own.
Also get rid of the absolute reliance on Mrs. Eddy's writings, their we're
many fine writngs and practitioner's before the church stifled anyone's
individual understanding i.e see the website the church has now
spiritualty.com. And thebookmark.com you'll see the church is changing some of it's ridgidity Get rid of the convalescent home's if what the author was writing is true how elderly citizens are cared for it. It's an atrocity.Any state home run like that would lost the're license long ago.
I really hope the church realizes the error of their ways. They could
easily rid themselves of those old ideas and and let new light and
breathe of fresh air in. That church might go places then. I do believe the mind does have some control over some the illnesses of the body but
there is no infallible formula that will heal the time. It's God Who
doe's the healing any way and he uses many methods to mold his
purpose's The book is well worth reading and might be helpful
in the C.S church to understand we're it need's to change

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Excellent book

Very well written, exhaustive study of Christian Science from it's inception as a strange little sect to the present "cult of respectability". After I read this book, I felt like I knew everyting I needed to know about this odd religion.

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Factual and very well written.

As a child of a mother and grandmother who were rabid Christian Scientists and who abused me with their denial of all my bad feelings (error), both physical and emotional, this book was of great interest to me.

I can attest that everything I read was fact, regarding CS beliefs and ways of "denying" sickness, pain and unpleasantness. This author obviously did her homework and knows of what she speaks.

For anyone in recovery from Christian Science or anyone who just wants the "facts", this is an excellent book.

In my opinion, this author was factual and possibly overly fair to this dangerous religious cult.

Also, in my opinion, Mary Baker was mentally ill, but highly charismatic, so was able to found a "religion" based on her personal (mentally ill) beliefs.

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From a former Christian Scientist, 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.

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