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Christian Science

Автор Марк Твен
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Дата написания1970-01-01
Язык книгиen
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Описание

Книга представляет критический анализ учения Христианской науки, начиная с личного опыта Марка Твена, переходя к исследованию личности и структуры организации Мэри Бейкер Эдди, и завершая собственными аргументами автора о природе исцеления и роли религиозных движений в обществе.

Главный конфликт / проблема

Критика учения Христианской науки и его финансовой модели, а также сомнения в оригинальности и авторстве ключевых текстов

Ключевые идеи

  • Христианская наука отрицает существование боли, болезни и материи, утверждая, что всё – это ум.
  • Учение основано на книге «Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures» и фигуре Мэри Бейкер Эди, которую авторы рассматривают как божественную.
  • Твэн критикует финансовую модель, где последователи платят за книги и услуги, создавая монополию.
  • Твэн сомневается в реальной эффективности «отсутствующего» лечения и подчёркивает отсутствие доказательств.
  • Мэри Бейкер Эдди как основательница и контролер Церкви
  • Сомнения в полном авторстве книги «Science and Health»
  • Строгая структура Церкви и монополия на тексты
  • Инфальбильность и контроль над членами
  • Влияние и критика «Великой Идеи»
  • Исцеление возможно только через духовный принцип, а не через физические методы.
  • Мэри Бейкер Эдди является центральной фигурой и источником авторитета в христианской науке.
  • Критика традиционного христианства за разрыв между личной и публичной моралью.

Вывод

Книга приводит к выводу, что Христианская наука, несмотря на свои духовные претензии, имеет недостатки в учении, практике и структуре, и её влияние может быть ограничено критическим осмыслением

Кому полезна

  • Критики религиозных движений
  • Люди, интересующиеся историей религий
  • Профессионалы в области теологии и религиоведения
  • Потребители духовных практик

Главные темы

  • Критика учения Христианской науки
  • Финансовая иерархия и контроль в Церкви
  • Проблемы авторства и оригинальности ключевых текстов
  • Проблемы с практикой исцеления и духовным мышлением

Персонажи

  • Мэри Бейкер Эдди — Обычная женщина с выдающимися способностями к манипуляции и контролю над учением. Автор книги «Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures» и центральная фигура учения, чьи идеи и практики подвергаются критике и защите в тексте.
  • Марк Твен — Автор, который пережил падение и испытал «отсутствующее» лечение, затем анализирует учение, выражая сомнения в оригинальности учения и обвиняя Эдди в самовосхвале.
  • Доктор Фуллер — Женщина, практикующая христианскую науку, объясняет Твену её принципы.
  • Реверенд Хебер Ньютон — Обсуждает роль исцеления в жизни Иисуса и в ранней церкви.
  • Мистер МакКрекан — Обсуждает вопросы авторства и точности учения.
  • Куимби — Автор упоминает его рукописи как потенциальный источник идей для Эдди.

Цитаты

  • «There is no such thing as pain; there is no such thing as disease; nothing exists but Mind; the mind cannot feel pain, it can only imagine it.»
  • «The trust will be the most insolent and unscrupulous and tyrannical politico‑religious master that has dominated a people since the palmy days of the Inquisition.»
  • Она была свидетельницей, от которой я черпал информацию. Она раскрыла это в своей автобиографии не намеренно, конечно — я не утверждаю это
  • Библия и вышеупомянутая книга [Science and Health], с другими работами того же автора, должны быть его единственными учебниками для торговли — он не может искать вне их
  • "Sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor."
  • Она имеет доставку продукта миру, но я уверен, что каждый отдельный элемент работы, кроме того, что она доставила, был создан другим.
  • «The Principle is divine and eternal, but the application of it to heal the sick had been lost sight of, and required to be again spiritually discerned and its science discovered, that man might retain it through the understanding.»
  • «Christian Science eschews divine rights in human beings.»

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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)

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Thus she has as absolute control over all Branch Churches as she has over the Supreme Church. This power exceeds the Pope's.

In simple truth, she is the only absolute sovereign in all Christendom. The authority of the other sovereigns has limits, hers has none, none whatever. And her yoke does not fret, does not offend. Many of the subjects of the other monarchs feel their yoke, and are restive under it; their loyalty is insincere. It is not so with this one's human property; their loyalty is genuine, earnest, sincere, enthusiastic. The sentiment which they feel for her is one which goes out in sheer perfection to no other occupant of a throne; for it is love, pure from doubt, envy, exaction, fault-seeking, a love whose sun has no spot—that form of love, strong, great, uplifting, limitless, whose vast proportions are compassable by no word but one, the prodigious word, Worship. And it is not as a human being that her subjects worship her, but as a supernatural one, a divine one, one who has comradeship with God, and speaks by His voice.

Mrs. Eddy has herself created all these personal grandeurs and autocracies—with others which I have not (in this article) mentioned. They place her upon an Alpine solitude and supremacy of power and spectacular show not hitherto attained by any other self-seeking enslaver disguised in the Christian name, and they persuade me that, although she may regard "self-deification as blasphemous," she is as fond of it as I am of pie.

She knows about "Our Mother's Room" in the Supreme Church in Boston—above referred to—for she has been in it. In a recently published North American Review article, I quoted a lady as saying Mrs. Eddy's portrait could be seen there in a shrine, lit by always-burning lights, and that C.S. disciples came and worshiped it. That remark hurt the feelings of more than one Scientist. They said it was not true, and asked me to correct it. I comply with pleasure. Whether the portrait was there four years ago or not, it is not there now, for I have inquired. The only object in the shrine now, and lit by electrics—and worshiped—is an oil-portrait of the horse-hair chair Mrs. Eddy used to sit in when she was writing Science and Health! It seems to me that adulation has struck bottom, here.

Mrs. Eddy knows about that. She has been there, she has seen it, she has seen the worshippers. She could abolish that sarcasm with a word. She withholds the word. Once more I seem to recognize in her exactly the same appetite for self-deification that I have for pie. We seem to be curiously alike; for the love of self-deification is really only the spiritual form of the material appetite for pie, and nothing could be more strikingly Christian-Scientifically "harmonious."

I note this phrase:

"Christian Science eschews divine rights in human beings."

"Rights" is vague; I do not know what it means there. Mrs. Eddy is not well acquainted with the English language, and she is seldom able to say in it what she is trying to say. She has no ear for the exact word, and does not often get it. "Rights." Does it mean "honors?" "attributes?"

"Eschews." This is another umbrella where there should be a torch; it does not illumine the sentence, it only deepens the shadows. Does she mean "denies?" "refuses?" "forbids?" or something in that line? Does she mean:

"Christian Science denies divine honors to human beings?" Or:

"Christian Science refuses to recognize divine attributes in human beings?" Or:

"Christian Science forbids the worship of human beings?"

The bulk of the succeeding sentence is to me a tunnel, but, when I emerge at this end of it, I seem to come into daylight. Then I seem to understand both sentences—with this result:

"Christian Science recognizes but one God, forbids the worship of human beings, and refuses to recognize the possession of divine attributes by any member of the race."

I am subject to correction, but I think that that is about what Mrs. Eddy was intending to convey. Has her English—which is always difficult to me—beguiled me into misunderstanding the following remark, which she makes (calling herself "we," after an old regal fashion of hers) in her preface to her Miscellaneous Writings?

"While we entertain decided views as to the best method for elevating the race physically, morally, and spiritually, and shall express these views as duty demands, we shall claim no especial gift from our divine organ, no supernatural power."

Was she meaning to say:

"Although I am of divine origin and gifted with supernatural power, I shall not draw upon these resources in determining the best method of elevating the race?"

If she had left out the word "our," she might then seem to say:

"I claim no especial or unusual degree of divine origin—"

Which is awkward—most awkward; for one either has a divine origin or hasn't; shares in it, degrees of it, are surely impossible. The idea of crossed breeds in cattle is a thing we can entertain, for we are used to it, and it is possible; but the idea of a divine mongrel is unthinkable.

Well, then, what does she mean? I am sure I do not know, for certain. It is the word "our" that makes all the trouble. With the "our" in, she is plainly saying "my divine origin." The word "from" seems to be intended to mean "on account of." It has to mean that or nothing, if "our" is allowed to stay. The clause then says:

"I shall claim no especial gift on account of my divine origin."

And I think that the full sentence was intended to mean what I have already suggested:

"Although I am of divine origin, and gifted with supernatural power, I shall not draw upon these resources in determining the best method of elevating the race."

When Mrs. Eddy copyrighted that Preface seven years ago, she had long been used to regarding herself as a divine personage. I quote from Mr. F. W. Peabody's book:

"In the Christian Science Journal for April, 1889, when it was her property, and published by her, it was claimed for her, and with her sanction, that she was equal with Jesus, and elaborate effort was made to establish the claim."

"Mrs. Eddy has distinctly authorized the claim in her behalf, that she herself was the chosen successor to and equal of Jesus."

The following remark in that April number, quoted by Mr. Peabody, indicates that her claim had been previously made, and had excited "horror" among some "good people":

"Now, a word about the horror many good people have of our making the Author of Science and Health 'equal with Jesus.'"

Surely, if it had excited horror in Mrs. Eddy also, she would have published a disclaimer. She owned the paper; she could say what she pleased in its columns. Instead of rebuking her editor, she lets him rebuke those "good people" for objecting to the claim.

These things seem to throw light upon those words, "our [my] divine origin."

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