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...
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...