Thomas Johnsen, “Historical Consensus and Christian Science: The Career of a Manuscript Controversy,” The New England Quarterly, LIII, 1 (March 1980), 3-22. From a scholarly study uncovering the genesis of a discredited plagiarism charge that was...
Christian Science Committee on Publication, “Mary Baker Eddy: Another View,” American Heritage (Feb/March 1982). From a commentary by The First Church of Christ, Scientist: “One thing on which Mrs. Eddy’s admirers and critics agree is that she...
Thomas Johnsen, “Christianity as Science: Mary Baker Eddy’s Unorthodox Vision,” American Society of Church History, Denver, 1983. From a paper delivered at a conference of religious historians held at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver:...
Jean McDonald, “Mary Baker Eddy and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Public’ Woman: A Feminist Reappraisal,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2.1 (Spring 1986), 89-111. From a groundbreaking article in a scholarly feminist publication. The...
Thomas Johnsen, “Understanding Mary Baker Eddy,” New England American Studies Association, Boston, April 2002. A paper presented at an American Studies conference held at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The theme of the conference was “The...
Stephen Gottschalk, “Christian Science” and “Mary Baker Eddy,”Mircea Eliade, ed., “The Encyclopedia of Religion (New York: Collier Macmillan, 1987), III, 442-446 and V, 29-31. From one of the most authoritative academic reference works on...
Stephen Gottschalk,”Christian Science and Harmonialism,” in Lippy and Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), II, 902-916. An assessment of the...
Frederic Hunter, “Robert Peel,” American National Biography (Oxford University Press: online, 2006). From a biographical sketch in the scholarly reference work, American National Biography: “…In 1946 Peel returned to civilian life and joined...
Robert Peel, “Christian Science” and “Christian Science Practitioner,”in Rodney Hunter, ed., Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990), 152-154. From a reference work brought out by a major Methodist publishing...
