Gottschalk, Stephen.

Rolling away the stone : Mary Baker Eddy's challenge to materialism / Stephen Gottschalk. - 1 online resource (xii, 483 pages) : illustrations. - Religion in North America . - Religion in North America. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-468) and index.

Prelude: the world's "leaden weight" -- "O God, is it all!" -- Becoming "Mrs. Eddy" -- By what authority? : on Christian ground -- By what authority? : listening and leading -- Woman goes forth -- "The visible unity of Spirit" -- "The preparation of the heart" -- "Ayont hate's thrall" -- A power, not a place -- "The outflowing life of Christianity" -- "The kingdoms of this world" -- Elijah's mantle -- Coda : the prophetic voice.

"Rolling Away the Stone is a richly detailed account of the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a major religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. This first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of The Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston focuses as no other previous book has on her long-range legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that - in changing forms - continues to threaten religious belief and practice in our time."--BOOK JACKET.

9780253013620 (electronic bk.) 0253013623 (electronic bk.)


Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910.


Materialism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations


Electronic books.

BX6995 / .G68 2006eb

289.5/092