Christian Scientists: has-beens or twenty-first century spiritual pioneers?

As the twentieth century dawned, the forces of continuity in Britain were as strong as the forces of change. Disraeli famously remarked that England was hard to move (quoted in Searle 2004: 3). Yet there is no doubt that the world of ideas was in considerable flux. It was an ‘age of extremes’ (Searle 2004: 2).