OTHER BOOKS
MENTIONING OR REFERENCING
THE URANTIA BOOK
In an effort to understand The Urantia Book's acceptance, I searched
for other books that mention or reference The
Urantia Book. As I delved into these references I began
categorizing and recording the books doing the referencing. I
eventually settled for about ten overlapping categories.
I put together a pdf
document summary of this page with interesting quotes. Any
book listing that has "(excerpt
in pdf)" is quoted
in this essay.
I plan for this to be a thorough, inclusive database, but I have only
started. 98
books are currently listed. I do not include literary or
publisher’s trade list books, various versions of UB itself or books
not written in English.
The first category is the Biography
or autobiography of an Urantia Book reader and believer (9).
Sunset
Years
Faith Marion 2003 Buy Books on the web Bibliography
The second category is the Comparative
Alternative
Religion Study books (17).
This type of book is a
collection of descriptions of non-mainstream religions including UB and
attempts to be objective or scholarly.
UFO
Religions
edited by Christopher
Partridge 2003
Routledge Comparative Religion
New
Age Encyclopedia
J. Gordon Melton; Jerome
Clark; Aidan A. Kelly
1990 Gale
Research
Comparative Religion
The next group I label UFO
Alien Visitors (3).
These books' main topic is
extraterrestrial visitations or related fringe science with some
support from UB.
A next category is Christian
Derision (3),
where Christian authors don't like any
deviations from traditional Biblical beliefs. But even they seem to
treat UB with respect.
Then there are the Skeptic
books (2).
These books' authors don't believe anything non-materialistic
science or "strange".
Yet people write Scientific
Believer books (4),
nonfiction books with UB supporting either
author's views or scientific evidence (in lenient senses of
"nonfiction" and "scientific".)
While there are the Scientific
Non-Believer books (9),
nonfiction authors claiming knowledge
of UB but offering no overt support (in lenient senses of "nonfiction"
and "scientific".)
Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior
1995-1997 Scientific
Non-Believer
I class the next group as Urantia
Book Reference (36),
books written by strong UB believer to
elucidate some aspect of UB itself or its concepts. A subgroup exists
that reports on legal issues related to UB itself such as copyright
issues.
Copyright Law Decisions
Commerce Clearing House 1981 Commerce Clearing House Urantia Book Reference
American Federal Tax Reports
Prentice-Hall 1983 Prentice-Hall Urantia Book Reference
The Urantia Book and the New Testament:
Comparison of the Life and Teachings of Jesus in the Urantia Book with
the Record of the Four Gospels in the New Testament : the Apocrypha
William S. Sadler 1961 William S. Sadler Urantia Book Reference
The Urantia Book Workbooks: Foreword and
Part I
Urantia Foundation;
William S. Sadler; Katharine Harries
2003
Urantia Foundation
Urantia Book Reference
Workbook of the Urantia Book
Jean Barr 2001 Academy Publishing Urantia Book Reference
Science in the Urantia Book
William S. Sadler;Alvin L.
Kulieke 1959
William S.
Sadler
Urantia Book Reference
Topical Studies in the Urantia Book: Part 1
William S. Sadler; Alvin
L. Kulieke
1960
William S. Sadler
Urantia Book Reference
The Short Course in Doctrine: Summary of
the Theology of the Urantia Book
William S. Sadler 1960 William S. Sadler Urantia Book Reference
West's federal supplement. [First Series.]
1995
Urantia Book Reference
Decisions of the United States courts
involving copyright
Richard C. DeWolf; Library
of Congress Copyright Office
1977 U.S.
G.P.O.
Urantia Book Reference
U.S. Tax Cases
Commerce Clearing House,
United States Tax Court, United States Dept. of the Treasury 1983 Commerce Clearing House Urantia Book Reference
South Western Reporter. Second Series:
Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Arkansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Tennessee, Texas : with Key Number Annotations
West Pub. Co. Urantia Book Reference
New Age
books are about New Age or progressive, possibly Christian,
spirituality whose authors believes in UB (6).
Next to last is the Speculative
book (4).
These authors are not necessarily believers or not, rather seem
more interested in passing on interesting ideas.
Last is Fiction
books based on UB concepts (4).