What is a Christian Science Organization?

A Christian Science Student Organization is a place for people to share – ideas, fellowship, discoveries. Found on college campuses across the United States, CSO’s provide a place for uplifting and open discussions on prayer, religion, God, the nature of the universe, life, and how Christian Science relates to each. CSO’s are open to anyone affiliated with university; not just Christian Scientists. For information on attending meetings at the University of Wisconsin CSO, see the meetings page.

What is Christian Science?

Christian Science is a worldwide Christian religion and a system of healing modeled after the same way Jesus Christ healed. Christian Science was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1875 after she discovered the direct healing power of the Christ and how it is still applicable today. Christian Scientists rely on prayer for a variety of issues, ranging from stress at work, to relationship issues, to well as freedom from sickness and sin. The following “tenets” are taken from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (S&H 497:3-27) to more succinctly summarize some of our beliefs.

The Tenets of Christian Science

  1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
  2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.
  3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
  4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
  5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
  6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.