Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy

by Stuart E. Knee

The thesis of this study is that Christian Science was a manifestation of the unrest gripping the United States after the Civil War. The age in which the movement flowered was, at once, sordid and gilded, commercial and optimistic. The stormy way through which the new religion passed was, in a sense, the road upon which all new ideas and schemes are tried. Mrs. Eddy's vision was subjected to reasoned and irrational scrutiny for 40 years. In truth,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313283605
• ISBN13: 9780313283604
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"