Materials for Study Groups

 Managing a Study Group

• Beginning and Organizing Effective Study Groups
• Organizing Successful Urantia Book Study Groups
  • Linda and Bob Buselli
• Undertaking a Personal Study of The Urantia Book
  • Jeffrey Wattles, 1995
• Methods of Teaching The Urantia Book
  • A Thesis prepared for the Seventy by Marian Rowley, March 9^th, 1945 -- This is an excellent overview of the thinking regarding reader education 10 years before publication of The Urantia Book. Much of it is still relevant today.

Some Materials for Study Groups

• Introduction to the Theology of The Urantia Book
  • Dr. Meredith Sprunger
• Glossary and Synopsis of The Urantia Book
• An Examination of the Operation of Two Principles in Paper 106
  • Bill Sadler
• Growth--Supreme, Ultimate, and Absolute
  • Dan Massey
• A Study of God the Spirit as a Participant in God the Sevenfold
  • David Kantor
• Organizing the Urantia Papers for Meaningful Study
  • This outline breaks the text up into logical chunks for easier study. David Kantor
• The Supreme, God the Sevenfold, Forces, Energies and Universe Power Control--100 Questions and Answers
  • Georgia Gecht
• The Universal Father as a Participant in God the Sevenfold
  • David Kantor
• Personalities of the Grand Universe
  • A comprehensive study catalog compiled by Marilynn Kulieke
• An Introduction to Some Concepts of God as Used in The Urantia Book
  • This is an introduction to the concept of God, the intellectual understanding of his nature and the way its distribution and internal relationships constitute reality.by David Kantor
• How Jesus Taught
  • David Kantor
• General Organization of The Urantia Book
  • Bill Sadler
• Reference Material for a Study of Paper 118: Supreme and Ultimate -- Time and Space
  • A clarification of the theological vocabulary used in this paper greatly simplifies study. by David Kantor
• Universal Unity: A Study of Paper 56
  • Bill Sadler
• Summary of the Presentation on Spiritual Healing
  • Henry Begemann
• Who Were They?
  • Who were the great philosophers, writers, religious leaders who paved the way for acceptance of Jesus' teaching in the first and succeeding centuries? by Carolyn Kendall
• Some Uses of Capital Letters to Differentiate Meaning in The Urantia Book
  • Georgia Gecht
• A Simplification of the Foreword to The Urantia Book
  • William S. Sadler, Jr.
• An Analysis and Synthesis of the Foreword
  • Jim O'Brien
• The Bill Sadler Tapes
  • Transcripts of study group talks by Bill Sadler, 1958 and 1959
• Fundamentals of the Urantia Papers
  • Collected study aids and diagrams used by the Forum and "The Seventy," 1943-1960
• General Organization of The Urantia Book
  • An outline by Bill Sadler prepared by Marian Rowley, 1965

Topical Studies

Note: In addition to the papers listed below which are specifically written as topical study guides, virtually any paper in the Fellowship Archives can be used as a basis for a study group discussion or a personal topical study.

• A study of the Morontia Life on Constellation and Local Universe Levels
  • A study outline prepared for the Urantia Brotherhood school by Ruth Burton, 1968
• Spiritual Influences in Mortal Life: Personal, Prepersonal and Impersonal
  • Study notes for a workshop by Stephen Hecht
• The Supreme Being -- A Study by Marion Rowley
  
  
• Ruth Burton's 1966 Seminar on God
  • A Study of God as Personal: God the Father -- Ruth Burton, 1966
  • A Study of God as Personal: God the Son -- Ruth Burton, 1966
  • A Study of God as Personal: God the Spirit -- Ruth Burton, 1966
  • A Study of God as Diversified Deity -- Ruth Burton, 1966
    
    
• Angels -- Guardians of the Soul
  • A study of various aspects of angelic ministry. Stuart Kerr III
• Exactly how do Seraphim Work? -- David Kantor
• General Timeline for Part III
  • Correlating Part III of the Urantia Book with additional historical information. David Kantor
• The Most Powerful Sentence in The Urantia Book
  • Paul Snider
• Personality
  • At what point in mortal life is personality bestowed? Berkeley Elliott; 1973
• Thoughts on Reincarnation
  • Given the comments in the Urantia Book about reincarnation, how are we to consider experiences of past lives reported by numerous individuals? An in-depth look at reincarnation. Dean White
• Reincarnation: Origin and Evolution of a Concept of Continuing Life
  • An outline for a study group on the topic of reincarnation. David Kantor
• Unity and Harmony
  • Eileen Laurence; Urantian Journal, Fall 1980
• The Creative Imagination in Prayer and Worship
  • George Park; Urantian Journal, Fall 1980
• The Seraphic Connection
  • Wesley James; Urantian Journal, Summer 1980
• When does Personality Arrive?
  • George Park; Urantian Journal, Spring 1980
• Reference Material for a Study of Paper 118
  • A review of the theological vocabulary used in this paper makes study much easier. by David Kantor