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December, 2007
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REVIEWS

Rolling Away the Stone
Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism

By Stephen Gottschalk
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 484. Illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

Rolling Away the Stone is a well-researched, elegantly written, sympathetic biography of Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), the founder of Christian Science. One of several biographies of Eddy, this is the first book-length study to draw extensively on the recently opened collections of the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. The perspective of her newest biographer, the late Stephen Gottschalk, is explicitly that of an insider to Christian Science. The tone is admiring and at points defensive, but the narrative is at every point richly textured and engaging, not only shedding light on Eddy and Christian Science, but also presenting fresh readings of other influential Americans and illuminating broader cultural trends of historical and current significance. . . .
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