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Home > Audiotapes > C-1A: CH. II, Atonement and Eucharist, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
C-1A: CH. II, Atonement and Eucharist, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life (audiocassette)
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Product Code: C-1AA
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Recordings
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31 hours (31 60-min audiotapes)
Class: 1956, London, UK
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SUBJECT(s):
The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook
RELATED BOOKS:
Max Kappeler, The Structure of the Christian Science Textbook—Our Way of Life, Vol. I: Revelation of the Structure
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Overview of C-1 Series: For over 60 years, Max Kappeler presented the structure of the Christian Science textbook through books, lectures, and classes, showing the divinely structured layout of each chapter. Kappeler's premise is that Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, is a revealed text and contains the whole of Christian Science. Read atomistically (sentences read out of context), the divinely inspired structure is missed. Our challenge is to understand Mrs. Eddy's revelation in its Science, something that can only be achieved through understanding the Textbook's spiritual system and structure. Once John W. Doorly pointed out the fundamental categories of the scientific system of Christian Science, it became possible for Kappeler to interpret the entire Textbook as a divinely structured, coherent story. This story leads the student through an evolution of understanding and consciousness in an uninterrupted, ordered way, from the first page to the last. This spiritual story is our ordered way of life and our teacher.
SYNOPSIS: Chapter I, "Prayer," presents the inward attitude needed to atone with God. In Chapter II, "Atonement and Eucharist," we atone ourselves with the divine nature of God by being ready to give up our human will and submit to God's demands (Eucharist).
CONTENTS:
Introduction: Atonement defined
- The way, suffering, experiences
Mind: atonement demands right and courageous action
- Law of atonement
Spirit: atonement demands purity of thought, demands turning away from matter to the imperishable things of Spirit
- How to spiritualize thought, to exemplify unity
Review of "Prayer" from points of view of:
(1) the Word of Life,
(2) the manhood of Truth
Meaning of "Atonement and Eucharist," reconciliation
Soul: atonement demands going the way from sense to Soul
- How to exemplify unity with God
Principle: atonement demands as a basis of demonstration an understanding of fundamental scientific facts
Recapitulation of Principle:
- Scientific foundation of atonement vs. theological doctrines
Life: atonement demands the laying down of a material sense of life, which to human sense appears as persecution
- Link of Principle to Life
- Developing sequence: the Life which is God
Review of "Prayer" from standpoint of the way of Life
Atonement and Eucharist is the exemplification of man's unity with God
- Correlation of the first two chapters with Days of Creation and Commandments
Recapitulation of Mind—Life
Truth: the possibility of man's atonement with God is exemplified in Jesus' lifework
- Truth is the effect of laying down the false sense of Mind—Life
- Developing sequence: giving birth to our true Christ-manhood
Love: the design of Love enforces atonement
- Developing sequence: Love draws every idea back to God: Mind—Love
- Recapitulation of "Prayer"
Recapitulation of "Atonement and Eucharist"
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