Stanger’s summary of Karl Holl’s article, “Scientismus,” in Der Herold is an appreciation of the thoroughness, accuracy, and sympathetic perspective of Holl’s overview of the Christian Science Church, its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, and its doctrines. Holl wrote for criminologists from the perspective of a non-Christian Science scholar, to correct the prejudice and injustice evident in many writings critical of Eddy.
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