The Christian Science textbook contains a pivotal chapter titled "Recapitulation." It is this chapter of questions and answers in Science and Health that the author, Mary Baker Eddy, informs us comprises a careful revision of her class-book—that earlier manuscript having formed the basis of her class teaching in the first years after her discovery. She goes on to say of "Recapitulation," "Absolute Christian Science pervades its statements, to elucidate scientific metaphysics." Science and Health, p. 465.
The first three questions and answers deal specifically with the nature of God. Synonymous names for the Supreme Being are given: divine Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Principle, Spirit, Mind. And it is also explained that God is omniscient, that He is all-powerful, that He is omnipresent (see Science and Health, pp. 465-466).
Later in the chapter another question and answer specifically discusses God's expression, man. The answer clearly asserts scriptural authority for the teaching in Christian Science that man is God's image and likeness. Part of the answer also shows man to be the perfect idea of infinite Mind, the spiritual reflection of God (see ibid., p. 475).
