How has this work, A Story Untold, been used in the academic world? Here are examples of academic works that made use of this book:

Mitch Horowitz, One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life. New York: Crown Publishing, [2014].

He added this in the Acknowledgements, p. [323], which refers to Keith’s help in educating Horowitz two years before Keith brought out his own work:

“Personal thanks go to Keith McNeil, an indefatigable researcher and historian who provided me with several key historical documents. Keith shared his insights with sensitivity and balance.”

Catherine Albanese (editor), The Spiritual Journals of Warren Felt Evans from Methodism to Mind Cure. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press [2016].

This is not only an important work on Warren F. Evans but it also is important on the Quimby-Eddy debate. Albanese supported my conclusion  that Evans did not consider himself a pupil of Quimby, nor does the documentary data suggest that he was significantly influenced by him. This book makes nice comments about A Story Untold.

Shirley Thomas Paulson, (Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Birmingham, June, 2017), “Healing Theologies in Christian Science and Secret Revelation of John: A Critical Conversation in Practical Theology.”

Paulson referenced A Story Untold in her dissertation.

Hamilton, Michael W. “The Bible and Christian Scientists.” Pages 661–80 in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America, ed. Paul C. Gutjahr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 

Hamilton referenced A Story Untold in his article.

Heather Vogel Frederick, “A Woman of Sound Education”: Mary Baker Eddy’s School Years. Chestnut Hill, MA: Longyear Museum Press, 2020.

This is a very well researched and documented look at Mrs. Eddy’s early education years. It cites A Story Untold.

Shirley Paulson, Helen Mathis, and Linda Bargmann, An Annotated Bibliography of Academic and Other Literature on Christian Science. Chesterfield, MO: Scholarly Works on Christian Science, [2021]. 

This important book on the academic side of literature on Christian Science includes a listing of A Story Untold on page 69. 

George Wadleigh, The Ram in a Thicket: Rebirth and Reform in the Practice of Christian Science. Lima, OH: Fairway Press, 2021.

The book quotes from A Story Untold many times.

Amy B. Voorhees, A New Christian Identity [:] Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]. 

A Story Untold is mentioned three times in the book.

Catherine L. Albanese, The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 

This is a very helpful book on metaphysical religions and the like, with looks at Bushnell, Andrew Jackson Davis, P. P. Quimby, Warren F. Evans, Emma Hopkins, etc. Albanese noted on Warren Evans, p. 339:

“The traditional account carried forward by New Though authors that Phineas P. Quimby was Evans’s mentor and doctor has been thoroughly discredited with prodigious evidence by independent scholar Keith McNeil in A Story Untold: A History of the Quimby-Eddy Debate (Carmel, IN: Hawthorne, 2020), vol. 3, esp. 1071-73, 1095-97, 1160-73.”

She makes a few other references to my book as well.

A Story Untold is cited in many Wikipedia subject reports.

Other works by Keith McNeil

Keith McNeil had his 2026 article, “Why Christian Science is not Quimbyism,” published in the Mary Baker Eddy Library website: https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org.

He also wrote a biographical sketch of Quimby for the German online encyclopedia, BBKL [Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon] (https://www.bbkl.de).