Key Takeaways:

• Wilbur presents Eddy as a determined religious innovator who overcame illness, poverty, and opposition to found Christian Science.
• The biography emphasizes Eddy’s conviction that spiritual understanding can heal disease, framing her life as a demonstration of her doctrine.
• It defends Eddy against critics, portraying attacks on her character as misunderstandings of her message and the threat it posed to conventional medicine and church authority.
• The book also illustrates how a woman in the late 19th and early 20th century carved out religious and organizational authority in a heavily male‑dominated culture.