The Urantia Book pre-publication manuscript tradition

Record summary

The Urantia Book presents itself as a revelation delivered through celestial personalities and was published anonymously in Chicago in 1955 by the Urantia Foundation. Its pre-publication history involves the alleged Contact Commission, trance or unconscious authorship claims and extensive editorial preparation. It can be compared with modern scripture formation, channeling, pseudonymous authority and institutional canon-making. This lead is outside the requested pre-1800 scope and should be marked as a comparative boundary case. Authorship, production process and supernatural status remain contested.