This updated edition includes the original fifteen chapters relating the life and teachings of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, founders of the Unity movement. Photographs and a chronology have been added to further enhance the text.

Documents the lives of the visionaries who created and organized Unity. This book explores the factors that led to the growth of the movement: the creation of the Unity School of Christianity; the development of Unity Village in Missouri; the publication program; the training of students; and the development of centers and churches.

Included in this collection of documents from the twentieth-century ecumenical movement are passages from texts produced by assemblies, conferences, and studies of the World Council of Churches and similar bodies, covering three areas of historical concern within modern ecumenism: faith and order, life and work, and mission and evangelism.

In In Essentials, Unity, Jenny Bourne presents a lively picture of a fraternal organization--the Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange--devoted to improving the lot of small farmers but whose legacies extend far beyond agriculture, shaping the very notion of collective action and how it is deployed even today.