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Stephen Gottschalk
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Associate Professor of History, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 1972–75. Author of The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life.

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The Mother Church at the Christian Science Center in Boston stands beside a large reflecting pool, with its domed roof and ornate facade visible under a partly cloudy sky.
Christian Science, religious denomination founded in the United States in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), author of the book that contains the definitive statement of its teaching, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). It is widely known for its highly controversial practice of…
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