Rolling Away the Stone – Mary Baker Eddy`s Challenge to Materialism de Stephen Gottschalk

Rolling Away the Stone – Mary Baker Eddy`s Challenge to Materialism

Stephen Gottschalk

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 feb 2011

This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. Rolling Away the Stone focuses on her long-reaching legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that threatens religious belief and practice.

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Cuprins

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Note on Textual UsageIntroduction; Prelude: The World's "leaden weight"; 1. "O God, is it all!"; 2. Becoming "Mrs. Eddy"; 3. By What Authority? On Christian Ground; 4. By What Authority? Listening and Leading; 5. Woman Goes Forth; 6. "The visible unity of spirit"; 7. "The preparation of the heart"; 8. "Ayont hate's thrall"; 9. A Power, Not a Place; 10. "The outflowing life of Christianity"; 11. "The kingdoms of this world"; 12. Elijah's MantleCoda: The Prophetic VoiceChronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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"Gottschalk has provided readers with a masterful account of Christian Science in its heyday. The book is a first-rate read for students of American religion and provides a look into how one of the country's more complex religious figures dealt with materialism in the late nineteenth-century America." Religious Studies Review"Gottschalk's account is well told and enriched by fresh material now available from the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity." Christian Science Monitor"Gottschalk does a superb job of providing historical context for the chaotic events of Eddy's final decades. He analyzes frequently oversimplified disagreements between Eddy and Mark Twain, deftly highlighting the many points of agreement and parallel thinking that led Eddy and Twain to very different conclusions. Finally, Gottschalk makes accessible Eddy's mature theology, the product of controversy as well as deep reflection: a thoroughgoing rejection of all materialisms affirmed by her contemporaries (scientific, medical, ecclesiastical, spiritual) in order to seek 'something higher and better than matter, and apart from it.'" Choice