Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures

Science and Health posits a wholly metaphysical view of Christianity in which sin, disease, and death are not of God, and are therefore not real. Further, it suggests that by striving toward a spiritual understanding of the world as God's perfect creation, these "false beliefs" are shed from one's experience.

The latest edition of the book consists of three sections. Following a short preface, the main section, 500 pages long, comprises the chapters on Prayer; Atonement and Eucharist; Marria...