Our book this month – The New Birth of Christianity: why religion persists in a scientific age – was published in 1992.
The world has surely moved along in the intervening 33
years. Is the book's message still relevant? What is the
message?
And who wrote this book?
The author is Richard A. Nenneman. Blog readers may
recall that Mr. Nenneman wrote a biography of Mary Baker Eddy titled Persistent
Pilgrim: the life of Mary Baker Eddy (published 1997). Our book club
read the book in 2016.
In a thoughtful tribute at the time of Nenneman's 2007 passing,
The Christian Science Monitor's David Cook described the author and former
Monitor editor-in-chief (1988-1992), as having
"a high-octane intellect
and love of world affairs... The tall and refined Harvard graduate came to the
paper after service as a US Army counter intelligence operative in Germany and
an early career in banking."
https://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1231/p08s01-cogn.html.
The Preface of our book indicates that the author's purpose
was "an attempt to communicate where Christian Science stands vis-à-vis
the historical Christian tradition" (p. viii). And contrary to what others might believe, Nenneman suggests that "Christian Science lies ... near the
flow of mainstream Christianity" (p. vi).
So, let’s get reading.
Julie Swannell
For information: The Reading Room at Redcliffe has two copies of this book: one for sale and one in the lending library.
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