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Christian Science went on to become the fastest-growing American religion in the early 20th century. The federal religious census recorded 85,717 Christian Scientists in 1906; 30 years later it was 268,915. [222] In 1890 there were seven Christian Science churches in the United States, a figure that had risen to 1,104 by 1910. [178]
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909) is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England. It was published as a book in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company.
The lectures are free and open to the public. A single installment generally consists of four lectures by the same visiting scholar, given over the course of a month or less. Many of the lectures have been edited into books published by the Yale University Press, and remain in print to this day (see below). From 1999 to 2009 the lectures were ...
Mary Baker Eddy (nee Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader, Christian healer, and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement.
The lectures were initiated by Harvard president Charles W. Eliot in 1896. They are now generally known as The Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality. On May 21, 1979, the Ingersoll Lecture Fund was transferred to the endowment of Harvard Divinity School, which continues to organize and host the lectures. [2] The lectures were to be published.
Stephen Gottschalk (c. 1941 – 10 January 2005) was a historian of American religion focusing on the Christian Science church, also known as the Church of Christ, Scientist.
In this position he delivered a series of free public lectures on Science, Faith, and God: The Big Questions, [32] in which he aimed to present "a coherent exploration of how Christian theology can engage with concerns and debates within modern culture, focusing on one of its leading elements – the natural sciences." [33]
Outlines of the History of the Papal Chancery 1913 William John Birkbeck: 1920 Terrot R. Glover: Inheritance and Experience in Early Christian Thought 1921 Cuthbert H. Turner: The Sources and Material of Early Western Canon Law 1924 James Vernon Bartlet: Church Life and Order in the First Four Centuries 1925 Alexander James Carlyle