Article June 5, 2006 Issue

WHAT IS healing?

with contributions from TOM BLACK, WALTER JONES, NATE TALBOT, MARY TRAMMELL, VIC WESTBERG

Recently the members of The Christian Science Board of Directors—TOM BLACK, WALTER JONES, NATE TALBOT, MARY TRAMMELL, and VIC WESTBERG—spoke with Sentinel Radio. They shared their individual insights into the healing truth that Mary Baker Eddy discovered. Here is a transcription of what they said, first broadcast June 3 on Sentinel Radio.

Mary Trammell: What is healing? Well, really, it's the restoring of health to the body, heart, the mind. Or maybe, on a broader basis, the body of one's finances, one's economy, one's community, one's whole world. And healing is just absolutely central to the theology of Christian Science. We have to have it. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, wrote this in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick" (p. 145). And to me, healing is important because it's the tangible evidence that God loves us, that God is with us, and that He cares about us.

Tom Black: Mrs. Eddy referred to the healing of the sick as a "bugle call"—an announcement of something of great importance. Something that reaches human thought, which might otherwise not be aware of it. It's important because the metaphysical healing of physical disease, and the metaphysical healing of issues that challenge mankind, verify the theology of Christian Science. And it needs that verification, of course. Jesus healed and verified his theology that way. He said, "I am come to bear witness unto the truth" (see John 18:37). And healing is the verification that actually is lifting those burdens.

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