Editorial July 26, 1952 Issue

THE LOGOS IS PRACTICAL

Robert Ellis Key

The danger of human philosophy is that it encourages or even absorbs the intellectual attention without fulfilling the demands of Christ Jesus to make the Word of God practical through the healing works. The ancient Greek philosophers were familiar with the term the Word, but they regarded the Word from the philosophical standpoint. To them it had no practical application.

Philo, a follower of Plato and entirely independent of Christianity, called the Logos, or the sum of ideas, "the Son of God." But the wisdom of God was to him a half mythological goddess instead of the healing Christ, Truth; hence it was of no practical value. This incorrect and theoretical view of the Word carried with it no proof of its existence. It was an intellectual fantasy, degenerating into mythology.

Christian Science is not an intellectual and material philosophy, but this does not mean that Scientists disregard the work done by thinkers and philosophers. The theory of Christian Science will absorb the attention of thinkers, but Christian Science can never be correctly understood unless its healing works are practiced. The Word must be made flesh. Is not this true in any branch of knowledge? Proof must follow theory, else the theory falls to the ground because it is unsupported by proof.

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