We live in an age that focuses increasing attention on the body. Hardly a book, a television program, a newspaper or magazine, is without some emphasis on the body.
We're very interested in—even fascinated by—how much it weighs, how it looks, how it feels, what we feed it, how to exercise it, how to dress it, clean it, oil it, massage it, decorate it, and satisfy it. Someday we'll probably be embarrassed that we were willing to be such servants to it!
Christian Science certainly hasn't come along to say, "Look, forget about the body. Get your mind on other, more spiritual things." Actually, Christian Science has a lot of valuable things to say about the body. The Science of Christianity is not calling on us to ignore the body, but is challenging us to consider it from an entirely different perspective. This Science invites the kind of deep rethinking that begins to restore and redeem, transform and regenerate, our entire sense of what the body means to us.
