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...