Abstract

Christian Science Examined

The article presents an overview of the book," Our New Religion: An Examination of Christian Science," by H. A. L. Fisher. A glimmering of understanding on such matters is needed properly to estimate the value of H. A. L. Fisher's critical treatise, "Our New Religion," which is the first attempt by a scholar of note to appraise this American phenomenon. To simplify his work Dr. Fisher divides his subject into three parts--The Prophetess, The Creed, The Church. To the prophetess he grants no more than have her other informed biographers; for him she remains a neurotic, sentimental inhibited woman with a driving ego, who succeeded in extending her sphere of personal influence beyond her immediate family largely because of the current mood of the American people themselves.