Weddle compares Jonathan Edwards’s, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s, and Mary Baker Eddy’s views on how each understood the connection of divinity with the human and natural world. In response to Emerson, Eddy asks from her Christian Science perspective: How could divine spirit bring forth from itself a world entirely opposite to itself? Either God is material or the world is spiritual.
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Mary Baker Eddy’s textbook and church founding are understood by her followers as a recovery of the original Christian events. Christian Science was the rebirth of moribund Christianity, a decisive return to the original authority. Weddle interprets the tribulations of the Christian Science church founding, codified in the Church Manual, as a recapitulation of early Christianity’s struggles with dissent and authority.
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