Faith-healing, Christian science and kindred phenomena

J. M. Buckley critically examines faith healing, Christian Science, and related healing movements, weighing their claims against religious, medical, and social standards of his era. The work is significant as an early and forceful response to alternative healing in modern America, and readers will find case discussions, critique, and historical context.

J. M. Buckley is best known as a Methodist editor and polemical religious writer rather than as an occult author in the strict sense. His relevance to esoteric or mystical literature is limited, though he participated in broader nineteenth-century debates over religion, spiritualism, and related movements.