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Why Study Christian Science as a Science?
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Product Code: WhyStudyF
Manufacturer: Kappeler Institute Publishing
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Booklet, 35 pages
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SUBJECT(s):
Christian Science as a Science
Introduction to the Divine System of Reference (the 7, the 4, & the 4)
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SYNOPSIS: There is a strong tendency to take Christian Science merely as a religion, though a comforting and reassuring one. But the very essence of Christian Science, as its name indicates, is Science—a Science concerned with God, the divine Being. Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science's discoverer and founder) emphasized the fact that her discovery was the Science of God, consequently, she capitalized the term Science. She states: "In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science" (S&H 107:1).
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CONTENTS:
The Early Development of the Study of Christian Science as a Science
- A brief account of John W. Doorly's researches
Why Study Christian Science as a Science?
- Science
- The Science of God
- Practical Consequences of the Science of God
Appendix I: Principle and Practice
Appendix II: Faith-cure
EXCERPT:
From Max Kappeler, Why Study Christian Science as a Science?, pp. 13–14.
Science
Science and religion. There is a strong tendency to take Christian Science merely as a religion, though a comforting and reassuring one. But the very essence of Christian Science, as its name indicates, is Science—a Science concerned with God, the Divine Being. Until the discovery of Christian Science, it was believed—and the majority of Christians today still believe—that God, the Supreme Being, can be approached only through religious means and not through divinely scientific methods.
Scientific approach to God. Mrs. Eddy's great step forward in the revelation of the spiritual idea lies in the discovery of a Science of God. She lays great stress on the fact that her discovery is a Science, a Science of the highest order. Consequently, in her writings she capitalizes the term Science. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"—her textbook of some six hundred pages—she uses the word Science capitalized more than a thousand times. This alone indicates the great emphasis she places on the fact that her discovery is Science. On the other hand, she attributes very little importance to religion in connection with her discovery. She uses the term religion only about forty times in her Textbook, and in most cases in a negative sense. This is evidence enough to draw the following conclusion: If we want to grasp Christian Science, then we must be willing to grasp it as a Science, and not as a mere religion. Hence, we must open our thought to approach the subject of God scientifically. With a merely religious mentality we can never fathom the Science of God and man. As this scientific approach of Christian Science to the subject of God is so new and revolutionary, we must be constantly on the watch not to allow a traditional, theological, and religious approach to dominate our mentality.
It is significant that in Mrs. Eddy's published writings the rendering "the religion of Christian Science" is never used. Her decisive aim was to draw the attention of the reader away from a religious approach to a scientific one. The human mind resists it.
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