Building on its webcast from September 12, The Mary Baker Eddy Library hosted another discussion inspired by the conference held in Antwerp, Belgium, this past April, on “Evolutions of Christian Science in Scholarly Perspective.”
This latest program focused on the influence of Christian Science in Great Britain in the spheres of modern art and women in politics.
Dr. David Holland, a Research Fellow at The Mary Baker Eddy Library and Associate Professor of North American Religious History at the Harvard Divinity School, and Mike Davis, Senior Researcher at The Mary Baker Eddy Library, held an online audiocast discussion, with questions from the public, on how The Mary Baker Eddy Library collections are bringing about new understanding of Mary Baker Eddy.
Harvard Divinity School Professor David Holland speaks about female spiritual revelation in American revelation in connection with the character of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
Harvard Divinity School professor on the divine revelatory experience in American female religious figures of the 19th century and in the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne.