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The Destiny of the Mother Church (Twentieth-Century Biographers Series)
by Bliss Knapp
from The Christian Science Publishing Society
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0 
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It took a lot of debt and a lot of ca$h to get this book published 
Besides the questionable theological viewpoints expressed in this book, it is a poorly written, poorly edited, rambling mess.
BTW, Tomlinson excellently handles the question of MBE and the woman in the Apocalypse at the end of his Twelve Years With Mary Baker Eddy, the competing book the C.S. Board of Directors originally chose to publish back in the '40s.
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Useless and misleading for non-Christian Scientists
As the title of this review indicates, this is NOT a good book for anyone who is not completely familiar with the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, or willing to take the trouble to become familiar with them.
I have felt that one main problem for those not really familiar with the writings of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science could be to cause a reaction from one extreme to another, where rather than valuing Mrs. Eddy correctly (where one sees that she is NOT deified), one's estimate of her... more info
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Casting down imaginations
This book contains nothing but the ramblings of a mad man deifying his subject.... Poor Bliss, I think he missed the mark.
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Knapp - a CSHeretic?, then so were her closest students! 
The ignorance of the views on Mrs. Eddy by her own closest associates by the detractors of this book is astounding. Most of these detractor, though ignorant of the orgins of this view are of the so-called Chicago/Kimball School. Kimball, while a fine lecturer, turned down Mrs. Eddy's request to work in her household and never understood Mrs. Eddy's relation to Biblical Prophecy. I have heard Knapp's views described as the "Knapp heresy". If so, then let us call it the Laura Sargent, Calvin Frye, Irving... more info
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