Mary Baker Eddy's “Church of 1879”: Boisterous Prelude to The Mother Church

In 1889, Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, asked her fractious Church of Christ (Scientist) in Boston to disband. No scholar has studied this “Church of 1879,” the predecessor of the present Mother Church founded in 1892, nor analyzed the members of this religious body. Therefore, after...

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Main Author: Swensen, Rolf (Author)
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Published: University of Californiarnia Press [2018]
In: Nova religio
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-114
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Eddy, Mary Baker 1821-1910 / Christian Science / Geschichte 1879
IxTheo Classification:AZ New religious movements
KDH Christian sects
Further subjects:B Church of Christ
B Christian Science
B Scientist
B Healing
B Metaphysics
B Mary Baker Eddy
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