Article April 22, 1950 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ACADEMICS

NEIL MARTIN

It is understandable and natural that Christian Science is more and more attracting the friendly attention not only of those seeking a satisfying and practical religion, but also of the intellectually curious. The scholar and the academician seek to evaluate it both as a system of metaphysics and as an empirical Science.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, although she disclaimed any other source than the Bible for her reinstatement of spiritual truth to this age, indicates all through her writings that she had the greatest respect for scholarship. And she has given reasonable and convincing answers to the academic critics of Christian Science in their own language.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes (p. 195): "Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed by its Principle, furnishes food for thought. Through astronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics, thought passess naturally from effect back to cause. Academics of the right sort are requisite." She insists, however, that only those academics are truly valuable which tend to turn the thought of the student of Christian Science away from the illusory evidence of the senses to spiritual causation, thus leading the individual consciousness to identify itself with its source, divine Mind, God.

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