Certain Qualities Common to All Religions--Christianity Historically Organized Around a Transcendent God and a Fallen Humanity--The Incarnation; the Cross the Supreme Symbol of Western Theology--The Catholic Belief in the Authority of an Inerrant Church--The Protestant Church Made Faith the Key to Salvation--Protestantism and an Infallibly Inspired Bible--The Strength and Weakness of This Position--Evangelical Protestantism the Outcome--Individual Experience of the Believer the Keystone of Evangelical Protestantism--Readjustment of Both Catholic and Protestant Systems Inevitable. II. NEW FORCES AND OLD FAITHS 46 The Far-reaching Readjustments of Christian Faith in the Last Fifty Years--The Reaction of Evolution Upon Religion--The Reaction of Biblical Criticism Upon Faith--The Average Man Loses His Bearings--The New Psychology--The Influence of Philosophy and the Social Situation--An Age of Confusion--The Lure of the Short Cut--Popular Education--The Churches Lose Authority--Efforts at Reconstruction--An Age of Doubt and a Twilight-Zone in History--The Hunger of the Soul and the Need for Faith--Modern Religious Cults and Movements: Their Three Centers About Which They Have Organized Themselves. III. FAITH HEALING IN GENERAL 82 The Bases of Faith and Mental Healing--Cannon's Study of Emotional Reactions--The Two Doors--The Challenge of Hypnotism--Changed Attention Affects Physical States--The Power of Faith to Change Mental Attitudes--Demon Possession--The Beginnings of Scientific Medicine--The Attitude of the Early and Medieval Church--Saints and Shrines--Magic, Charms, and the King's Touch: The Rise of the Faith Healer. IV. THE APPROACH TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND MARY BAKER EDDY 108 Mesmerism--The Scientific Investigation of Mesmerism--Mesmerism in America; Phineas Quimby an Important Link in a Long Chain--Quimby is Led to Define Sickness as Wrong Belief--Quimby Develops His Theories--Mary Baker Eddy Comes Under His Influence--Outstanding Events of Her Life: Her Early Girlhood--Her Education: Shaping Influences--Her Unhappy Fortunes. She is Cured by Quimby--An Unacknowledged Debt--She Develops Quimby's Teachings--Begins to Teach and to Heal--Early Phases of Christian Science--She Writes "Science and Health" and Completes the Organization of Her Church. V. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A PHILOSOPHY 136 Christian Science a Philosophy, a Theology, a Religion and a System of Healing--The Philosophic Bases of Christian Science--It Undertakes to Solve the Problem of Evil--Contrasted Solutions--The Divine Mind and Mortal Mind--The Essential Limitations of Mrs. Eddy's System--Experience and Life--Sense-Testimony--The Inescapable Reality of Shadowed Experience. VI. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS A THEOLOGY 163