Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy
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- ISBN 9780313283604
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1994
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, Christian Science belonged only tenuously to a modern era. It reflected the prevailing optimism, progressivism, utopianism, and feminism of the Gilded Age but did not illuminate the stage with a unique light of its own.
STUART E. KNEE is Professor of History at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. He is the author of The Concept of Zionist Dissent in the American Mind and Hervey Allen: A Literary Historian in America.
