Article March 27, 1937 Issue

In connection with the series of articles on Christian Science...

Joseph F. Turner, Committee on Publication for New South Wales, Australia,

Sydney Diocesan Magazine

In connection with the series of articles on Christian Science which concluded with the September issue, I shall be glad if you will allow me a little space to deal with a few of the points raised.

It is claimed that the teaching of Christian Science on the personality of God is confused. Too often God is conceived of as anthropomorphic—that is, if the average person meditates at all on the precise nature of God, and man's relation to Him. Mrs. Eddy defines God, on page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as "incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love," and states that these terms are synonymous.

The first of the thirty-nine Articles of Religion in the Episcopal Prayer Book defines God as "everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness." This definition coincides with the Christian Science definition given above, for that which is "without body, parts, or passions" must be Spirit or Mind, and could not in any sense be corporeal and finite. Since God is not corporeal, His personality is not corporeal, but spiritual, and is expressed in man through spiritual ideas.

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