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  "title": "Christian Science makes healing lawful",
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      "exact": "But a Christian Scientist of the twentieth century can believe it as much as a Christian of the twelfth century.",
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  "body_markdown": "The capitalized name denotes the religious teaching of Mary Baker Eddy, rather than a scientist who happens to be Christian. Her *Science and Health* first appeared in 1875. In the Project Gutenberg transcription inspected here, she calls healing the operation of divine Principle and describes such works as supremely natural (Preface, xi:9–18). More sharply, she rejects the idea that Spirit occasionally sets aside material laws (83:12–20). Her positive account makes healing an expression of immutable divine law (134:21–135:8). [Eddy, *Science and Health*](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3458/pg3458-images.html).\n\nChesterton's example therefore works as evidence of a modern religious outlook accepting extraordinary healing, but introduces a complication into his contrast between law and will: Eddy's explanation itself appeals to unchanging law. Agreement that a healing occurred would not entail agreement about what made it possible. The inspected transcription does not identify its print edition; these passages should not be treated as verified wording of the 1875 first edition or of a particular edition available to Chesterton in 1908.",
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      "title": "Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures",
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    "No particular Eddy edition used by Chesterton has been established.",
    "The source documents Eddy's explanation and claims, not the medical efficacy of healing."
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        "question": "What does the Christian Scientist example mean, and does that movement understand healing as a suspension of law?"
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        "approach": "Philosophical contextualization: then and since",
        "question": "Does rejecting calendar-based objections answer an evidential argument against miracles such as Hume's?"
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