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...
