Editorial November 12, 1984 Issue

No longer thinking in matter

ALLISON W. PHINNEY, JR.

Why does Christian Science discuss the nature of matter when as religion its primary focus is on God, Spirit, and Christian living? Because the extent of one's trust in matter, in material life and all its circumstances, limits one's understanding of God.

Christian Science teaches that it is actually possible to discover God as the entire Life and substance of man, to get some sense of matter as nothing more than an image of human thought, and to prove this, at least in part, through Christian healing.

Those who have become Christian Scientists and entered its healing practice have seen discordant matter—disease, chronic illness, the effects of accident—literally changed, healed, through a new understanding of God's all-inclusive reality and His law.

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