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Article: Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America.(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2004
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Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America. By Rennie B. Schoepflin. Medicine, Science and Religion in Historical Context. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 301 pp. $39.95 cloth.
The theme of lives "on trial" takes on two meanings in Rennie Schoepflin's treatment of Christian Science healing in early-twentieth-century United States. In one sense, trial refers to the ways Christian Scientists saw healing in their own lives as a test case for the truth of Christian Science, which could in turn convince others of this truth. The other sense is that of the legal challenges faced by Christian Science from its nineteenth-century ...