Eddy, Mary Baker
EDDY, MARY BAKER (1821–1910), the American discoverer of Christian Science, founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, "to commemorate the word and works" of Christ...
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Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910)
Mary Baker Eddy is regarded as one of the most influential women in American history. In 1992 the Women's National Book Association recognized her Science and Healt...
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The American founder of the Christian Science Church, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) showed a unique understanding of the relationship between religion and health, which resulted in one of the era's most...
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In the following essay, Todd provides an overview of Christian Science and of the principal tenets of Eddy's writings.
Christian Science is the system of religious thought and the denominati...
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In the following essay, Moore examines the connection between Christian Science and the occult.
Mary Baker Eddy's first husband happened to be a Mason. Briefly but happily married to George ...
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In the following essay, Lindley discusses Eddy's feminist principles.
Among women who have achieved recognition in the field of religion, Mary Baker Eddy frequently appears as a pioneer, a w...
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In the following essay, Weddle argues that Christian Science is based on a "mythic vision of Christian history."
A holy book arouses the greatest respect even among those (indeed, mo...
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In the following essay, Gottschalk explores the controversial reception of Bliss Knapp's biography of Mary Baker Eddy.
A book and an endowment have thrown the Church of Christ, Scientist, in...
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In the following essay, Gadberry discusses two little-known German dramas about Eddy.
My personal interpretation is that Germany has such a wealth of love, mercy, and other virtues found in the Ch...
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In the following essay, Thomas surveys Eddy's impact on modern American social and religious thought
Mary Baker Eddy's death in 1910 was not the passing of an ordinary woman. Obituari...
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In the following essay, Parker discusses Mary Baker Eddy and the Victorian notion of women as purely moral beings.
As Mark Twain described her, Mary Baker Eddy was the very type of the American bus...
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In the following essay, Downs discusses Science and Health and Eddy's career.
America has given the world two major religions—the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormo...
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In the following essay, Olds discusses Eddy's life and religious beliefs.
Today, most moderns view the real world as the world of sense experience. In this world there is flesh which we enjo...
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In the following essay, Sowd examines the culture and theoretical background from which Christian Science came.
For Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy was "the most daring and masculine and masterf...
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In the following essay, Gottschalk examines the continuing influence of Christian Science.
Christian Science can be best understood as a pragmatic interpretation of Christian revelation. It is the ...
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In the following essay, Fox offers an interdisciplinary interpretation of Christian Science, concluding that many Victorian women found social and intellectual freedom in the religion.
Introduction
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In the following essay, Stein explores Eddy's autobiography Retrospection and Introspection.
In 1891 Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) opened her auto-biography, Retrospection and Introspection, w...
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In the following essay, Bohlke explores Willa Cather's connection to Eddy and Christian Science.
As with many other writers of fiction whose foundations were laid in journalism, the total nu...
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Eddy, Mary Baker
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910)
Mary Baker Eddy
Critical Essay by Arthur James Todd
