Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition

Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition (1932) is a book by Ernest Sutherland Bates, the American academic, and John V. Dittemore, a former director of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Christian Science mother church in Boston.

Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition
AuthorErnest Sutherland Bates and John V. Dittemore
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMary Baker Eddy and The First Church of Christ, Scientist
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher
Pages476
OCLC1199769

Based on several trunks' worth of primary-source material to which Dittemore had access, the book is a detailed account of the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy, the religion's founder. It was first published in New York by A. A. Knopf. Reviewing the book in 1933, Richard H. Shryock wrote: "Step by step, critically, inexorably, the authors complete the case against this greatest of modern 'health-cultists'. Their very restraint makes it the more terrible."[1]

The Christian Science church bought the copyright and publisher's plates from A. A. Knopf and suppressed the book.[2]

References
  1. Shryock, Richard H. (1933). "Review of Mary Baker Eddy: The Truth and the Tradition". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 20 (1): 134–136. doi:10.2307/1902362. JSTOR 1902362.
  2. Gill, Gillian (1998). Mary Baker Eddy. Perseus Books, p. 579, citing Braden, Charles S. (1958). Christian Science Today: Power, Policy, Practice. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, pp. 384–385.

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