A scientific endeavour

It seems to me that Robert Peel (Mary Baker Eddy: Years of Discovery) could have taken the phrase, “The time for thinkers have come” (see Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, vii: 18) as the basis of his recording of and commentary on Mary Baker Eddy’s life. He was a historian, and as I see it, he writes as a historian who is endeavouring to convince the literary and scientific world of the scientific nature of Mrs. Eddy’s discovery of Christian Science. 

The Science which she discovered was the Science of actual Being, the science of everything, really. She discovered that every true science is based on the divine Principle she proclaims to be God. Science and Health, the textbook of Christian Science, states, “All science is divine” (126:8 only). And, “There is no physical science, inasmuch as all truth proceeds from the divine Mind” (127:23-24).

I checked Science and Health on its use of the phrase, “the science of….” Here is what I found –

the science of -

• being
• celestial being
• Christ
• Christianity
• creation
• divine Mind
• Genesis
• God
• healing
• Life
• Love
• man
• mental healing
• mental practice
• Mind
• Mind-healing
• Soul
• Spirit
• spiritual reflection
• the Scriptures
• this proof

And Mrs. Eddy’s prose works other than Science and Health add a few more –

the science of -  

• Christian healing
• divine Love
• good
• man
• metaphysical healing
• omnipotence
• physical laws
• Principle
• Psychology
• the Scriptures
• treating disease
• Truth
• wedlock

I have come to wonder if Christian Scientists would do well to emphasise the fact that Christian Science is science more than the fact that it is scientific religion.

Joyce Voysey