Eddy, Mary Baker: Science and Health. V1. 23-Aug-2013
 

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is the central text of the Christian Science religion. It was written by Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910), inspired by studies of the Bible she undertook in 1867 following a healing experience. 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.