Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy

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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.

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Knee does a wonderful job of bringing together the philosophy and history of the day and the philosophy and history of Christian Science. The result is a highly interesting, insightful treatment of Christian Science that is likely to be enjoyable reading for anyone interested in learning about an unusual woman and her legacy.-Perspective on Science and Christian Faith
"Knee does a wonderful job of bringing together the philosophy and history of the day and the philosophy and history of Christian Science. The result is a highly interesting, insightful treatment of Christian Science that is likely to be enjoyable reading for anyone interested in learning about an unusual woman and her legacy."-Perspective on Science and Christian Faith

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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.