Persistent Pilgrim: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy

by Richard A. Nenneman

Book Overview

PERSISTENT PILGRIM is the most in-depth, serious biography of Mary Baker Eddy since the Peel trilogy a generation ago and the first one-volume story of the life of the founder of Christian Science to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891331027
• ISBN13: 9781891331022
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Nebbadoon Pr
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful perspective

This book provided me with a wonderful perspective on Mary Baker Eddy's healing gift and how she established it, against considerable odds, as a system, supported by a church and a publishing house, which remains available for personal study through her book, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Perceptive and affectionate

This fairly short biography of Mary Baker Eddy gives a fuller and deeper appreciation of her character than even Robert Peel's three volume work. Nenneman relates the events of her life in a way that throws real light on the way Christian Science itself informed her actions and gradually developed her perceptions. The reader may still want to turn to Peel's work for detailed analysis but this well-documented book is the very best place to start a study of this religious figure. It reminds one of Edmund Morris' Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Real feeling for the subject pervades every page.