The Bible Speaks to You January 12, 1963 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the weekend of January 4—6 in the radio series , " The Bible Speaks to You " heard internationally over more than 800 stations. This is one of the weekly programs produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication , 107 Falmouth Street , Boston 15, Massachusetts.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 40 - What Is Man?

HOST: Nobody knows the first time the question, What is man? was asked. But the answer is still being sought today in research laboratories and in people's hearts around the world.

For a few centuries it seemed easy to find an answer. People believed that man was part physical body, part something immortal called soul. But then, theories of biology and other physical sciences raised grave doubts, and drastic changes began to take place in the prevailing human views about man. As Charles J. Rolo said recently in The Atlantic Monthly:

"The most revolutionary changes are changes in man's basic beliefs about himself. Three such revolutions have occurred in Western thought in the past five hundred years...and they have successively dealt shattering blows to man's pride. Copernicus dethroned man from the center of the universe. Darwin challenged his sense of divinity by tracing his descent to the animal kingdom. And Sigmund Freud, the first cartographer of the unconscious, punctured his conviction that the conscious mind was master of man's fate."

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