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|name = Unity Church |image = Unity-church.jpg |alt = Unity Village |imagewidth = 250px |type = Christian New religious movement |caption = Unity Village |main_classification = Unity |orientation = New Thought |spiritual founder = Charles and Myrtle Filmore |founded_date = 1889 |founded_place = Kansas City, Missouri, United States |headquarters = Unity Village, Missouri |separated_from = |parent = |merger = |separations = |associations = |congregations = |members = |website = unity.org }}{{NewThought}}Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a New Thought Christian organization that publishes the Daily Word devotional publication. It describes itself as a "positive, practical Christianity" which "teach[es] the effective daily application of the principles of Truth taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ" and promotes "a way of life that leads to health, prosperity, happiness, and peace of mind."[1] HistoryUnity was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she believed, by spiritual healing. This resulted in the Fillmores' studying world religions, spiritual healing, and the link between science and religion. They were influenced by Dr. E. B. Weeks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emma Curtis Hopkins and Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science). In 1891 the Fillmores named the movement Unity and began publication of their first magazine called Unity. Later magazines included Wee Wisdom (for children) and Daily Word TM. Book publishing began with Lessons in Truth by H. Emily Cady. In 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore accepted ordination and ordained 7 other ministers. [2] After World War I, Unity Village, which became a 1,200-acre incorporated town, was developed 15 miles from Kansas City. After Charles Fillmore's death, the movement was initially led by the Fillmores’ sons and grandchildren.[3] OrganizationIndividual Unity churches are autonomous, governed by their own Board, choosing their minister, and seeking affiliation according to guidelines. Minister training, ministerial placement, and educational resources are offered at Unity World Headquarters, which also publishes magazines, books, and pamphlets. Their prayer ministry, Silent Unity, a telephone and email service, offers prayer and counseling. Unity operates several programs, including a prayer program called Silent Unity, the Unity Society of Practical Christianity, Unity School of Christianity, Unity Institute, the Office of Prayer Research, the Association of Unity Churches, and Unity House, the church's publishing arm. The home of Unity is at Unity Village, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. Each Unity Church sponsors their own chapter of Youth of Unity (YOU), a group of high-school aged teens who come together to learn Unity principles and spiritual practices. At least once a year, all the chapters in a YOU region come together for a weekend retreat called a 'rally.' An International YOU Conference is held each summer at Unity headquarters at Unity Village, Missouri, for seven days. [4][5] Overview of UnityUnity describes itself as a worldwide Christian organization which teaches a positive approach to life, seeking to accept the good in all people and events. Unity began as a healing ministry and healing has continued to be its main emphasis.[6] It teaches that all people can improve the quality of their lives through thought.[7] Unity describes itself as having no particular creed, no set dogma, and no required ritual.[8] It maintains that there is good in every approach to God and in every religion that is fulfilling someone's needs.[9] It holds that one should not focus on past sins but on the potential good in all.[10] Unity emphasizes spiritual healing, prosperity and the curing of illness by spiritual means, but Unity does not reject or resist medical treatments.[3] Unity is accepting of the beliefs of others.[11][12][13][14] Churches fall under the auspices of Unity Worldwide Ministries although each church is autonomous in its practices.{{fact|date=March 2017}} Basic teachings{{peacock|date=March 2013}}{{New Thought beliefs}}The five basic ideas of Unity's belief system are:[15]
Unity aims to demonstrate that the teachings of Jesus Christ can be lived every day. Its followers believe that the true "Church" is a "state of consciousness in mankind."[16] Unity teaches that each person is a unique expression of God, that each person is sacred, and each person is worthy. Unity emphasizes the creative power of thought in people's experience, and encourages taking personal responsibility to choose life-affirming thoughts, words and actions, in order to experience a more fulfilling and abundant life.[17][18] H. Emilie Cady's 1896 book Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity is considered a core text of Unity. GodUnity Church views God as spiritual energy which is present everywhere and is available to all people. Members of the church believe that God only seeks to express the highest good through everyone and everything.[19] According to Unity co-founder Charles Fillmore: {{quote|God is not a person who has set creation in motion and gone away and left it to run down like a clock. God is Spirit, infinite Mind, the immanent force and intelligence everywhere manifest in nature. God is the silent voice that speaks into visibility all the life there is.[20]}}He later states that: {{quote|God is your higher self and is in constant waiting upon you. He loves to serve, and will attend faithfully to the most minute details of your daily life.[21]}}JesusUnity Church followers believe in the divinity of Jesus, but only in the sense that all humans are the children of God and share that divine potential. They believe that Jesus was a master teacher who expressed this divine potential and sought to show others how to do the same.[22] Unity uses the term "Christ" to mean the divinity in all people. For them Jesus is the great example of the Christ in physical form.[23][24] The nature of humanityUnity Church teaches that its followers are all individual, eternal expressions of God, and that their essential nature is divine and therefore inherently good. Unity followers believe their purpose in life is to express their divine potential as demonstrated by Jesus, and that the more they awaken to their divine nature, the more they can do this.[25][26] Salvation, in the Unity view, is found in conscious understanding of one's innate divinity and then putting that knowledge into practice in everyday life.[27]The BibleUnity founders, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, studied the Bible as history and allegory. They interpreted it as a metaphysical representation of each soul's evolutionary journey toward spiritual awakening. Unity understands the Bible as a complex collection of writings compiled over many centuries. The Bible is a valuable spiritual resource, but is understood as a reflection of the comprehension and inspiration of the writers and their times.[28][29][30] Affirmative prayerAffirmative prayer is understood, in Unity, as the highest form of creative thought. It includes the release of negative thoughts and holding in mind statements of spiritual truth. Unity teaches the use of meditation and prayer as a way to experience the presence of God, heighten the awareness of truth, and thereby transform our lives.[31][32]
Unity teaches that it is helpful to pray with the belief that we have already received all that we need. In this view, through prayer the mind is renewed and the body transformed. The awareness that we are conscious creators of our lives, has the power to make the bridge between the old Christianity where we are "sinners" to the new understanding that we are "learners."[34] The Unity School of Christianity holds that prayer is not a way to inform God of one's troubles or to change God in any way, but rather, prayer is properly used to align with the power that is God.[35][36] Relationship to ChristianityUnity emphasizes its agreements, not differences, with traditional Christians and[11] stresses its concurrence with the teachings of Jesus and the Bible.[37][38][39][40][41][42]
Unity considers itself to be a non-sectarian educational institution although Unity ministers do complete a prescribed program of courses, training and ordination. [11] Notable membersWell known persons affiliated with Unity include Maya Angelou[44][45] Betty White,[46] Eleanor Powell,[47] Lucie Arnaz,[48] Wally Amos, actress Michael Learned, Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick,[49] Barbara Billingsley, Theodore Schneider, Erykah Badu, Matt Hoverman, author Victoria Moran,[50] Patricia Neal,[51] Holmes Osborne[52], and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong[53]. See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://unity.org/aboutunity/whoWeAre/faq.html#denomination |title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Unity.org |date= |accessdate=2012-12-29}} 2. ^www.unity.org/timeline 3. ^1 {{cite web| title = Unity School of Christianity| work = Encyclopædia Britannica Online| publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica| date = | url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/617994/Unity-School-of-Christianity| doi = | accessdate = 2009-06-26}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitygold.us/about-youth-unity|title=About Youth of Unity {{!}} Unity in the Gold County Spiritual Center|website=www.unitygold.us|language=en|access-date=2018-03-28}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://unitysouthcentral.org/youth-of-unity/|title=Youth of Unity – Unity Worldwide Ministries South Central Region|website=unitysouthcentral.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-28}} 6. ^Rhea, Rosemary Fillmore, "Unity in the twenty-first Century" Unity Magazine, Sept–Oct 2004, pp. 32–34 7. ^Omwake, Mary, "The Power to Heal" Unity Magazine Nov–Dec 2005, p. 38 8. ^Rosemergy, Jim "No More Dogmas, No More Creeds, Unity Magazine, March–April 2003, p 17 9. ^Bazzy, Connie Fillmore, "Unity School of Christianity and the Unity Movement" Unity Magazine, Sept–Oct 2001, pp. 4–6 10. ^"Unity:A Path for Spiritual Living" Unity Magazine, Nov–Dec 2007,pp.41–42 11. ^1 2 "Unity School of Christianity, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 1987, Vol 12 P, 162. 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://unity.org/aboutunity/whoWeAre/faq.html#denomination |title=Frequently Asked Questions about Unity |publisher=Unity.org |date= |accessdate=2012-12-29}} 13. ^Kornfield, Jack, "The Wisdom of Not Knowing" Unity Magazine Nov–Dec 2005 p. 10 14. ^Gaither, Jim, Metaphysical Musings, Unity Magazine, Jan–Feb 2008, p. 10 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://unity.org/aboutunity/whatWeBelieve/index.html |title=What We Believe |publisher=Unity.org |date= |accessdate=2012-12-29}} 16. ^Fillmore(1997) p37 17. ^Fillmore, Charles, Talks on Truth,17th ed 1998 pp. 7–13 18. ^Cady, Emilie Lessons in Truth, 15th ed 1995, pp. 97–109, 143–154 19. ^Shepherd, Thomas, "I've Always Wondered About" Unity Magazine, Sept–Oct 2007, p. 10 20. ^{{cite web|title=Talks on Truth, by Charles Fillmore, page 9|url=http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/talks/talks_009.htm#TopOfText|publisher=The New Thought Library|accessdate=2 November 2015}} 21. ^{{cite web|title=Talks on Truth, by Charles Fillmore, page 11|url=http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/talks/talks_011.htm#TopOfText|publisher=The New Thought Library|accessdate=2 November 2015}} 22. ^Fillmore(1997) p111 23. ^Fillmore(1997) p25 24. ^Braden, Charles, Spirits in Rebellion:The Rise and Development of New Thought. 1987, Southern Methodist University Press. pp. 260–262 25. ^Cady, Emilie, Lessons in Truth, 15th ed 1995 pp. 17–24 26. ^Butterworth, Eric MetaMorality: A Metaphysical Approach to The Ten Commandments. 1988, pp. 119–122 27. ^Braden, Charles Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought. 1987, Southern Methodist University Press. p. 238 28. ^Fillmore(1997) p. 24 29. ^Turner, Elizabeth S. Be Ye Transformed: Bible Interpretation Acts through Revelation 1988, pp. 9–13 30. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unity.org/aboutunity/whatWeBelieve/index.html#BasicTeachings |title=What We Believe |publisher=Unity.org |date= |accessdate=2012-12-29}} 31. ^Mosley, Glenn, "Learning to Pray," Unity Magazine May–June 2001, pp. 16–17 32. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bible.ca/cr-Unity.htm |title=Unity Beliefs |publisher=Bible.ca |date= |accessdate=2012-12-29}} 33. ^Freeman, James Dillet, "Life is a Wonder" Unity Magazine, Mar–Apr 2001, pp. 18–19 34. ^Baherman, Steve, "Unity: The Healing Edge of Christianity", Unity Magazine, Jan–Feb 2008, pp. 20–22 35. ^Fillmore(1997) pp 152–154 36. ^Cady, Emilie, Lessons in Truth, 15th ed 1995, pp 97–108 37. ^Fillmore, Charles Jesus Christ Heals, 19th ed 1999, pages 9–35 38. ^Turner, Elizabeth Sands, Your Hope of Glory, 10th ed, 1996, pp. 7–15 39. ^Butterworth, Eric The Universe is Calling, 1994, pp. 129–135 40. ^Freeman, James Dillet, The Story of Unity, 2000, pp. 9–19, 225–269 41. ^Mosley, Glenn, "Unity, Much more than a Denomination" Unity Magazine, Mar–Apr, 2003, pp. 15–16 42. ^Shepherd, Thomas, "That's a Good Question" Unity Magazine, Jan–Feb 2008, p. 7 43. ^Fillmore, Charles Jesus Christ Heals, 19th ed 1999, p. 79 44. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ntunity.org/blog/mglorius/18/08/2012|title=The Power of Thought by Dr. Maya Angelou - New Thought Unity Center|website=www.ntunity.org}} 45. ^Maya Angelou at 80: Life is still an adventure, Hillel Italie, Phillyburbs.com, March 29, 2008 46. ^{{cite web|last1=Villalva|first1=Brittney R.|title=Betty White- I'm 'Sexier' and 'More Wise' at 91 (PHOTO) |url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/betty-white-sexier-and-more-wise-at-91-actress-jokes-photo-89569/|website=www.christianpost.com|publisher=The Christian Post|accessdate=13 March 2015}} 47. ^{{cite web|last1=Taylor|first1=Jim|title=OUR "QUEEN OF TAP DANCING" - ELEANOR POWELL|url=http://www.tapdance.org/content/feature-story-0409|website=www.tapdance.org|publisher=International Tap Association|accessdate=13 March 2015}} 48. ^{{cite web|last1=Messer|first1=Kate X|title=Lucie 'splains It All|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/arts/2011-02-10/i-do-3-lucie/|website=www.austinchronicle.com|publisher=The Austin Chronicle|accessdate=13 March 2015}} 49. ^{{cite news|title=Paid Notice: Deaths WARRICK, RUTH|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E0D71238F93BA25752C0A9639C8B63|accessdate=13 March 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=January 18, 2005}} 50. ^{{cite web|last1=Moran|first1=Victoria|title=Growing Up on Daily Word|url=http://www.dailyword.com/articles/2013/04/growing-daily-word|website=www.dailyword.com|publisher=Daily Word|accessdate=13 March 2015}} 51. ^Raven, Barbara C. Badge of Courage. Unity Church of New York, 2002. 52. ^ and Holmes Osborne mentioned attending on the cast commentary on the Donnie Darko DVD 53. ^Q&A with John Shelby Spong, paragraph 3 Further reading
| last = Fillmore | first = Charles | authorlink = Charles Fillmore (Unity Church) | coauthors = | title = The Revealing Word: a dictionary of metaphysical terms | publisher = Unity Books | year = 1997 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-87159-006-9}}
| last = Vahle | first = Neal | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Unity Movement: Its Evolution and Spiritual Teachings | publisher = Templeton Foundation Press |date=September 2002 | location = | pages = 504 pages | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 1-890151-96-3}}
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