The Urantia Movement

Movement·Founded 1955 CE·No membership exists to count. The Foundation reports the book in print in more than a dozen languages, and several hundred study groups are listed worldwide.

The Urantia Movement

Urantia FoundationThe Urantia Book FellowshipArchiveMichael Foundation v. Urantia Foundation (10th Cir., 11 March 2003) — the copyright ruling

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Story of The Urantia Movement

The life of Jesus, year by year.

Papers 120 to 196 fill in the years the gospels skip, including a journey around the Mediterranean. For a large share of readers this section is the reason the rest gets read.

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Where it is toldPapers 120 to 196 — a third of the book
Who appearsJesus of Nazareth, from birth to the resurrection
What it teachesA life of Jesus with thirty undocumented years filled in, which is what most readers come for
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Papers 120 to 196 — a third of the book by length — give a life of Jesus that includes the years the canonical gospels pass over: a Mediterranean journey as a tutor to a wealthy family, work as a carpenter supporting his widowed mother, and a detailed reconstruction of the public ministry. Many readers arrive for this section and treat the cosmology as its setting. It is also the part that draws the sharpest response from Christian readers, since it accepts the resurrection while rejecting the atonement, and presents the crucifixion as something that happened to Jesus rather than something required of him.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
The four gospels — and why four. Christianity · scripture Open the book →
Y Yahshua, not Jesus. The Twelve Tribes · figure Meet them →
The Rigveda. Vedic Religion · scripture Open the book →
When dharma decays, the divine descends. Hinduism · core tenet Go deeper →
The Pali Canon. Buddhism · scripture Open the book →
The Agamas. Jainism · scripture Open the book →

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