It was founded in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), in Kansas City, Missouri. It currently has its headquarters in Unity Village, Missouri.
Basic teachings
The five basic ideas that make up the Unity belief system are:Overview of Unity
Charles Fillmore expressed Unity's approach to affirmative prayer as:History
H. Emilie Cady, a former homeopathist, wrote Unity’s first and seminal text, Lessons in Truth in 1894. Her writing became a cornerstone of Unity’s teachings. In 1947 Unity School moved to its new headquarters at its Unity Farm site between Lee's Summit and Kansas City Missouri. Beginning as a locally renowned produce farm, the site expanded and incorporated as Unity Village in 1953. Today the campus occupies 1400 acres and is open to the public.Relationship to Christianity
Unity was founded in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), in Kansas City, Missouri. The Fillmores considered themselves Christians, though they did not subscribe to the Nicaean Creed. Unity minister Eric Butterworth stated that the Council of Nicaea was "a bitterly contested struggle, during which Arius got up to speak and Nicholas of Myra punched him in the nose." He describes this as a meeting concerning a "religion about Jesus" rather than the "religion of Jesus" as presented through Jesus's teachings.Prominent members
Celebrities affiliated with Unity include Betty White, Eleanor Powell, Wally Amos, Licensed Unity Teacher Ruth Warrick, Barbara Billingsley, Matt Hoverman, Patricia Neal, Holmes Osborne and Esther Williams.
In March 2008 Maya Angelou stated that she plans to spend part of the year studying at the Unity Church. In 2005 she attended a Unity Church service in Miami and decided that day to "go into a kind of religious school and study" on her 80th birthday.
Unity symbol: Wings
The Unity wings symbol, the winged globe, appears in many Unity publications. Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, explained the symbolism of the winged globe this way:
See also
- New Thought
- Divine Science
- Religious Science
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
- Historic list of New Thought organizations
- List of New Thought writers
- Panentheism
- Law of Attraction
Notes
References
*External links
- Unity (main website)
- Association of Unity Churches International
- Unity Social, a social networking site for people in Unity
- Unity. In The Columbia Encyclopedia (2007). Columbia University Press. Retrieved on 2008-03-27..
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