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Bob Arkens essential topics

  • Value of the individual
  • Created perfectly versus gradual progress through time and effort
  • Spark of God within each person
  • New definition of religion
  • The reality of relationships
  • The size of God
  • God as the great delegator of tasks
  • The size of the universe, material and personal
  • The real purpose and meaning of Jesus’ death on the cross

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David Kantor topics

  • It's a personal universe--a personal universe in which relationships between persons form the foundations of reality.
  • Provides an evolutionary developmental model of universe reality within a framework of eternal absolutes.
  • Revitalization and illumination of the Gospels.
  • A handbook for personal spiritual experience and integration with the transcendent in mortal life.
  • A call to service and divine partnership in service.
  • The Heavenly Father rules a universe of universes solely with the power of his love.
  • Restores a viable story to fading understandings of the Incarnation
  • Authoritatively overrides the skepticism created by non-theistic post-Enlightenment philosophy while vastly expanding the frontiers of Christian Existentialism, Personalism, and the utility of Narrative Theology.
  • Creates a bridge to post-Christian appreciation of the Incarnation.
  • Transplants the best achievements of Christianity into the post-Modern environment.
  • Provides a breath-taking vision of destiny.
  • Revitalization of the archetypes of the collective unconscious of Christendom--the fading story of our past--plus the introduction of new archetypes representing spiritual, mindal, and material creative powers. [See UB comments on universe frames]
  • Provides a common set of symbols for expanding thought and identity into subconscious and superconscious domains of being, enabling richer communication in the community of readers. [See UB comments on dimensions of personality]
  • Integration of the Christian message and story with contemporary science and cosmology: The universe is mind made and personality managed.

Reconnects humanity with its transcendent spiritual benefactors.

  • Enables the reader to expand the depth of his or her autobiography.
  • Provides orientation to cosmic citizenship and eternal life.
  • A biography of Jesus enabling us to know the Father by seeing how he interacts with and reacts to the commonplace reality of human life.
  • A frame of reference for personal religious experience and intellectual growth.
  • Integration of Process and Trinitarian Theologies, expanding the frontiers of Christian theology.
  • Integration with the thought of Christian Existentialists and Personalists.
  • The transfer of spiritual culture from deteriorating collectives (institutions) to the individual—the cultivating of personal spiritual experience which retains and revitalizes the archetypal narratives of the deteriorating collectives.
  • Facilitates conceptual organization of experienced reality.
  • Revitalizes the significance of the Master's Great Commission, providing insight into the processes needing to be catalyzed for purposes of planetary rehabilitation.
  • Provides an overview of the project to evolve intelligent spirit-responsive life in the universe,
  • Reveals an inhabited universe with countless forms of life participating in universe evolution through alliance with the will of the Universal Father—creator and upholder of all reality.
  • The UB counters existential isolation by calling us to recognize the Trinity structure of reality and the derivative architecture of existential subjectivity in terms of things, meanings, and values; fact ideas, and relationship; truth, beauty, and goodness (of origin in the Triodity of Actuality rather than the Trinity itself).
  • The Urantia Book provides a transplanetary cosmology and spiritual frame of reference beyond the beliefs of a specific people in a specific culture at a particular time on an evolutionary planet in an early stage of development--preparation for the possible (inevitable?) discovery of life elsewhere in the universe and appreciation for the transplanetary nature of the teachings of Jesus--they apply to relationships between persons regardless of the contexts within which those persons may be living.
  • The revelators' treatment of the Incarnation addresses a host of Christological issues which have perplexed thinking men and women for centuries, illuminating controversies and potentially eliminating conflicts while opening up new domains for exploration.

The Urantia Book complements and catalyzes the work of the Spirit of Truth by providing a supportive conceptual narrative--essential for the work of the Spirit of Truth to progress through the experience of the God knowing individual to actualization in creative engagement with the world.


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