Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism“Gottschalk distinguishes himself by placing Christian Science in the larger context of American religion . . . sheds new light on Eddy’s life and work.” —Publishers Weekly This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. Rolling Away the Stone focuses on her long-reaching legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that threatens religious belief and practice. “Gottschalk has provided readers with a masterful account of Christian Science in its heyday. This book is a first-rate read for students of American religion and provides a look into how one of the country’s more complex religious figures dealt with materialism in the late-nineteenth-century America.” —Religious Studies Review “Gottschalk does a superb job of providing historical context for the chaotic events of Eddy’s final decades.” —Choice “Gottschalk’s account is well told and enriched by fresh material now available from the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.” —Christian Science Monitor “The book includes a great deal of fresh research and honest scholarship . . . for the individual wanting to sink his or her teeth into a serious study of Eddy . . . you have a lot to look forward to in reading this book.” —The Christian Science Journal |
From inside the book
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... evil, declared theologian Hans Kung, has become in the age of Auschwitz ”the rock of atheism.” But atheism was no option for Eddy, who had been raised in the religious culture of latter-day New England Puritanism, the major expression ...
... evil, declared theologian Hans Kung, has become in the age of Auschwitz ”the rock of atheism.” But atheism was no option for Eddy, who had been raised in the religious culture of latter-day New England Puritanism, the major expression ...
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... evil so conspicuous to-day,” she also wrote in that book, “show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of the age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era.” As she saw it, the only form of spirituality worthy of the name ...
... evil so conspicuous to-day,” she also wrote in that book, “show themselves in the materialism and sensualism of the age, struggling against the advancing spiritual era.” As she saw it, the only form of spirituality worthy of the name ...
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... evil. Artlessly yet pointedly, the Christian Science Journal telescoped the whole issue by citing the story of a boy looking out of his window and telling his mother: ”It's a funeral, mamma, God has been killing someone else.”12 For ...
... evil. Artlessly yet pointedly, the Christian Science Journal telescoped the whole issue by citing the story of a boy looking out of his window and telling his mother: ”It's a funeral, mamma, God has been killing someone else.”12 For ...
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... evil, counterpoising the direction she took with Mark Twain's anguished confrontation with the same issue in the later part of his life. Chapter 2, “Becoming 'Mrs. Eddy,' ” focuses on how, after leaving Boston abruptly for Concord in ...
... evil, counterpoising the direction she took with Mark Twain's anguished confrontation with the same issue in the later part of his life. Chapter 2, “Becoming 'Mrs. Eddy,' ” focuses on how, after leaving Boston abruptly for Concord in ...
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... evil, and all forms of suffering appear thoroughly real, often more real than anything else. But she also wrote, “To take all earth's beauty into one gulp of vacuity and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature God's creation ...
... evil, and all forms of suffering appear thoroughly real, often more real than anything else. But she also wrote, “To take all earth's beauty into one gulp of vacuity and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature God's creation ...
Contents
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2 Becoming Mrs Eddy | 88 |
3 By What Authority? On Christian Ground | 123 |
4 By What Authority? Listening and Leading | 146 |
5 Woman Goes Forth | 168 |
6 The Visible Unity of Spirit | 194 |
9 A Power Not a Place | 287 |
10 The Outflowing Life of Christianity | 320 |
11 The Kingdoms of this World | 355 |
12 Elijahs Mantle | 393 |
The Prophetic Voice | 415 |
Chronology | 421 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 459 |
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