A Conceptual Outline of The Urantia Book
- The Foreword: Orientation to some conceptual structures and abstract relationships developed in the text of The Urantia Book.
- Papers 1 - 15: Primary
theological cosmology of The Urantia Book.
- Papers 1-5: The Nature of God.
- Papers 6, 7: The Eternal Son.
- Papers 8, 9: The Infinite Spirit.
- Paper 10: The Paradise Trinity.
- Papers 11-15: Cosmography--The Geography of the Cosmos.
- Papers 16-31: Introduction to
the interpersonal Deity relationships which constitute the architectural structure
of the personal cosmos in the present universe age.
- Papers 16, 17: Personalities of origin in the Paradise Deities.
- Papers 18, 19: Personalities of origin in the Paradise Trinity.
- Papers 20-22: Personalities of origin in the Eternal Son.
- Papers 23-29: Personalities of origin in the Infinite Spirit.
- Papers 30, 31: Other Personalities functioning in the Grand Universe.
- Papers 32 - 40: An introduction
to the Local Universe of Nebadon.
- Paper 32: Physical Cosmology of Local Universes.
- Papers 33-35: Local Universe Administration.
- Papers 36-39: Service Mechanisms of the Local Universe.
- Paper 40: Ascending Personalities.
- Papers 41,42: Physical Cosmology of Local Universes.
- Papers 43-44: Administration and Culture of the Constellations.
- Papers 45-48 (with Paper 55): An
introduction to the local System.
- Papers 45-46: Administration and Culture of Local Systems.
- Papers 47-48, (and 55): Cultural Life Immediately Following our Life on Urantia.
- Papers 49-54: An introduction to
inhabited worlds of mortal life.
- Papers 49-52: Administration and Culture of Inhabited Worlds.
- Papers 53, 54: The Lucifer Rebellion.
- Paper 55: The Spheres of Light and Life.
- Summation--Paper 56: A philosophic essay on the nature of the cosmic unity integrating the realities explored in The Urantia Papers. Paper 56 is a special paper. Papers 1-55 build a conceptual foundation upon which the philosophic developments in Paper 56 may reasonably be made. Paper 56 also summarizes the cosmology presented in the preceeding papers. Paper 56 and the Foreword may be studied profitably together.
- Papers 57-65: The Nature of
Super-Human Management of Evolutionary Processes.
- Papers 57-61: Geological and Biological Evolution on our Planet, Urantia.
- Papers 62-64: Early Human Evolution.
- Paper 65: The Intelligent Management of the Evolutionary Process.
- Paper 65: The Intelligent Management of the Evolutionary Process.
- Papers 66-77: The nature of
super-human efforts to foster planetary civilization.
- Papers 66,67: Initial Superhuman Efforts to Foster Civilization on our Planet.
- Papers 68-71: Human Socio-Political Evolution
- Paper 72: Government on a Neighboring Planet -- Implicit Critique of Contemporary Human Socio-Political Systems.
- Papers 73-76: Second Superhuman Effort to Stimulate Civilization on our Planet -- the Mythology of the "Garden of Eden."
- Paper 77: The Midwayers -- A superhuman Order of Beings resident on Earth.
- Papers 78-92: The evolution of
human institutions.
- Papers 78-81: Human Racial Anthropology and the Development of Contemporary Civilization.
- Papers 82-84: Family Life and the Evolution of the Marriage Institution.
- Papers 85-92: Evolution of Human Religions.
- Papers 93-103: Recent epochal
revelations and the development of present day levels of theological
understandings about the nature of Deity.
- Papers 93-95: The Visit of Melchizedek.
- Papers 96-98: Development of Hebrew and Greek Thought Prior to the Times of Jesus.
- Papers 99-103: A philosophic critique of contemporary human religious institutions and the nature of personal spiritual experience.
- Papers 104-117: Conceptual
foundations for the fifth epoch: The revelators compose the highest
achievements of human theology and philosophy into a platform upon which
further growth may take place. This involves an integration of
trinitarian and process theologies and the relationship of this integration to the teachings of Jesus about the kingdom of heaven.
- Papers 104-106: Some theological insights from which a more advanced trinitarian cosmology might be developed.
- Papers 107-112: A revelation of some ontological realities supporting the development of a deeply enriched spiritual life.
- Papers 113,114: A revelation of the nature of superhuman assistance available for the advance of civilization.
- Papers 115-118: The Supreme Being -- some understandings upon which advances in process theology might be based.
- Paper 118 provides an additional conceptual foundation from which future advances in spiritual cosmology and process theology might be developed. This paper, in the way in which its concepts are presented, also models a philosophical approach to the integration of further developments with present attainments, based upon the approach put forth at [19:1.6]: "The true perspective of any reality problem--human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic--can be had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases of universe reality: origin, history, and destiny. The proper understanding of these three experiential realities affords the basis for a wise estimate of the current status."
- Papers 119-195: A narrative
revitalization of the meanings and values which constitute the ethical, moral
and spiritual foundations of human culture -- the life and teachings of Jesus.
- Paper 119: Universe Antecedents to Jesus' Visit to our World.
- Papers 120-134: The mortal
career of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Papers 120-121: Introductory background to the life of Jesus.
- Papers 122-129: The Life of Jesus: Birth Through Age 29.
- Papers 130-134: Early Travels and Teachings.
- Papers 135-158: The public work
of Jesus, the Son of Man.
- Paper 135: The critical role of John the Baptist.
- Paper 136: Personal Preparation for Public Ministry.
- Papers 137-140: Building the Core Group of Apostles.
- Papers 141-147: Beginning the Public Work.
- Papers 148-151: Training Evangelists and Continuing Ministry.
- Papers 152-156: Growing Opposition of Religious Leaders.
- Papers 157-158: Mount of Transfiguration.
- Papers 159-188: The public work
and personal experience of Jesus, the Son of God.
- Papers 159-170: Concluding the Public Ministry.
- Papers 171-182: Events Leading up to Jesus' Arrest.
- Papers 183-188: Arrest, Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus.
- Papers 189-193: Resurrection and appearances to believers.
- Papers 194-195: Bestowal of the Spirit of Truth.
- Paper 196: Philosophic reflections on the Life of Jesus.