Re:
https://uudb.org/articles/henrynelsonwieman.html
"While living at Carbondale, Wieman continued to move away from traditional Christianity. In 1963 he wrote, 'It is impossible to gain knowledge of the total cosmos or to have any understanding of the infinity transcending the cosmos. Consequently, beliefs about these matters are illusions, cherished for their utility in producing desired states of mind ... Nothing can transform man unless it operates in human life. Therefore, in human life, in the actual processes of human existence, must be found the saving and transforming power which religious inquiry seeks and which faith must apprehend.' "
"In a 1967 sermon to Unitarians he said, 'I don't think I've found any other association of people who gather regularly to consider the important problems of human existence which I've found is more congenial or as congenial as this.' "
Considering the many volumes of writing by Wieman, that the two Rodan Papers (160, 161; apparently, Wieman's heavily edited "The Issues of Life") is such a small portion of Wieman's lifetime productivity suggests that "The Issues" had greatest potential for midwayer editing for inclusion in the Urantia Papers. In fact, these two Rodan Papers now seem intentional examples of the Acknowledgment in 121:8.12.
UB Acknowledgments by Authors/Sponsors*
Foreword: [ 0:12.11-13 ]
Part I - Papers 1-31 [ 1:7.9, 31:10.22 ]
Part II - Papers 32-56 [ 54:6.11, 56:10.23 ]
Part III - Papers 57-119 [ 119:8.9 ]
Part IV - Papers 120-196 [ 121:0.1, 121:8.11-14, 134:3.8, 134:5.1 ]
* From
http://aitnaru.org/images/Urantia_Papers.pdf
"In carrying out my commission to restate the teachings and retell the doings of Jesus of Nazareth, I have drawn freely upon all sources of record and planetary information. My ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also be helpful to all future generations. From the vast store of information made available to me, I have chosen that which is best suited to the accomplishment of this purpose. As far as possible I have derived my information from purely human sources. Only when such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are superhuman.
When ideas and concepts of Jesus’ life and teachings have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave preference to such apparently human thought patterns. Although I have sought to adjust the verbal expression the better to conform to our concept of the real meaning and the true import of the Master’s life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the actual human concept and thought pattern in all my narratives.
I well know that those concepts which have had origin in the human mind will prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in human expressions, I have next resorted to the memory resources of my own order of earth creatures, the midwayers. And when that secondary source of information proved inadequate, I have unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of information." (121:8.12)
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