Study Group on Scholarly Relations, 1963–1964 Karl F. Willenbrock, Chair. Associate Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and Lecturer in Applied Physics, Harvard University. Consultant to government agencies and industry. Ph. D., Harvard. American Physical Society....
From a reference work brought out by a major Methodist publishing house: “…A 1948 academic study (Steiger) concluded that Eddy had done something new by evolving a metaphysic that healed. She herself claimed that physical healing was the ‘least...
Karl Holl,”Der Szientismus,” Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kirchengeschichte (Tübingen: J.C.B. Muhr, 1921-28), 460-479. Trans. Theodor Stanger, Mary Gottschalk. From a perceptive early scholarly discussion of Christian Science, written in 1916 by the renowned...
Mary Burt Messer, “The Advance of Woman,” The Family in the Making (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928), 351-355. From the chapter “The Advance of Woman,” in Mary Burt Messer, The Family in the Making: An Historic Sketch. Messer, an...
Pam Robbins and Robley Whitson, “Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science,” The Sign 59.10 (July/August 1980), 16-21. From an especially fair-minded article from a Roman Catholic perspective in a magazine published by the Passionist Missions:...
Robert Peel, “Mrs. Eddy as a Spiritual Thinker,” The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, August 1985. From a talk given at the denomination’s Mother Church in Boston to a meeting of Christian Scientist college and university students:...
Stephen Gottschalk, “Christian Science Today: Resuming the Dialogue,” Christian Century, Dec. 17, 1986, 1146-1148. A noted Christian Scientist scholar writes in an interdenominational Protestant publication: “From its inception in 1879, the Church of...
Stephen Gottschalk, “Theodicy after Auschwitz and the Reality of God,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1987, nos. 3-4, 77-91. A powerful repudiation of traditional stereotypes reducing Christian Science to an expression of mindless optimism regarding the...
Stephen Gottschalk, “Critic’s Corner: Update on Christian Science,” Theology Today, April 1987, 111-115. Another important effort to put in perspective the relation between Christian Science and historic Christianity: “…The intensity of...
Robert Peel, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: ‘…to gyve science & helthe to his puple…'”, in Ernest Frerichs, ed. The Bible and Bibles in America (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988), 193-213. From a chapter on the Christian...
