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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... healing presence for humanity. She saw the healing ministry of Christian Science as helping to rouse Christians to the great promise of restoring the power of the original Gospel. What blocked the fuller realization of this promise, in ...
... healing presence for humanity. She saw the healing ministry of Christian Science as helping to rouse Christians to the great promise of restoring the power of the original Gospel. What blocked the fuller realization of this promise, in ...
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... healed of the effects of a severe injury. This breakthrough she called her “discovery” of Christian Science. The ... healing in early 1866, she later said, “included a glimpse of the great fact that I have since tried to make plain ...
... healed of the effects of a severe injury. This breakthrough she called her “discovery” of Christian Science. The ... healing in early 1866, she later said, “included a glimpse of the great fact that I have since tried to make plain ...
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... healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.”7 Beginning on this basis, Eddy insisted, provides a whole new understanding of what salvation actually means and ...
... healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.”7 Beginning on this basis, Eddy insisted, provides a whole new understanding of what salvation actually means and ...
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... Healing happens—not, in her View, through blind faith or miraculous divine intervention, but through understanding more of God's love and the supremacy of his power. This, said Eddy, was the basis of healing in New Testament times that ...
... Healing happens—not, in her View, through blind faith or miraculous divine intervention, but through understanding more of God's love and the supremacy of his power. This, said Eddy, was the basis of healing in New Testament times that ...
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... healing practice—or what she once characterized in terms adapted as the chapter's title, “ 'The Outfiovving Life of Christianity.' ” Concurrently, her efforts to confront the evidences of materialism within the Christian Science ...
... healing practice—or what she once characterized in terms adapted as the chapter's title, “ 'The Outfiovving Life of Christianity.' ” Concurrently, her efforts to confront the evidences of materialism within the Christian Science ...
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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