root-contention

Updated: May 1, 2025

But even such an admission does not mean that Christian Science does more than apply the principle of suggestion, increasing its efficacy by utilising the religious faculty of the patient; nor, above all, does it give countenance to the root-contention of the creed, viz., that pain and disease are unreal.

Joseph Warschauer - Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive