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Data de nascimento: 1906
Data de falecimento: 1995-03-26
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
Educação: University of Iowa (MA, PhD)
Mission House College
Ocupação: philosopher
teacher
minister
Pequena biografia: Marcus Bach was born in Sauk City, Wisconsin. He trained for the ordained ministry at Mission House College and seminary in Plymouth, Wisconsin. After a pastorate in Kansas City, Missouri, Marcus Bach returned to school to pursue play writing . He received his M.A. (1937) and Ph.D. (1942) from the University of Iowa's prestigious interfaith School of Religion. There he taught about little known religious sects and also presented the course in radio.

Although he always continued to write and publish, in 1961, he resigned from the School of Religion to pursue lecturing and writing full time. He authored twenty-seven books, including Major Religions of the World, Had you Been Born in Another Faith, The Unity Way, The World of Serendipity, and The Power of Total Living. At one point in his life, Dr. Bach set out to meet the five people of his time whom he felt best exemplified the teachings of Jesus Christ in their lives. He travelled 40,000 miles in pursuit of this aim, interviewing Helen Keller, Pope Pius XII, Albert Schweitzer,Therese Neumann, and Shoghi Effendi.

Dr. Bach was founder and director of "The Fellowship for Spiritual Understanding." He has contributed to the Encyclopedia Americana, Theatre Arts, the Reader's Digest, and many other periodicals. and was director of special projects for SFF. The Rockefeller Foundation granted him a fellowship in “research and creative writing” from 1934-36

Marcus Bach is recognized as a leading authority on the world's religions and inter-cultural relations. Among his currently popular works are The World of Serendipity, The Power of Perception and the metaphysical allegory, I, Monty.

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The Unity Way de Marcus Bach

An old enough book to have no prior entry on Goodreads and even no ISBN(!), this is the work of a scholar of religion who found he took to Unity. I attended a Unity service in Birmingham in 2010 or '11. Someone asked if I was a first-time visitor and upon my yes I was gifted a single dethorned rose with a note expressing my value. Many affirmative statements of one's own value are made in Unity and really all of New Thought (Christian Science, Divine Science); some of their more mystifying beliefs arise out of this affirmative posture. One can't help but picture a man covered in bedsores who suffers a stable trajectory of decay until his eventual death, uttering loudly that "Every Cell In My Body Is Filled With Christ Consciousness, I Do Not Inherit Sickness, I Am Health Embodied by the Spark of God Within Me, I Am Whole and Well," or perhaps succumbing to his disease mid-sentence... In Prosperity is found a similar, albeit less unbelievable doctrine.

And yet there was a simple joy of experiencing Affirmative Prayer in action. That same year, I called in to Silent Unity once; I was too far removed from belief in a deity to listen with any openness to the prayer they spoke for me over the phone.

Gnosticism, Kabbalah and Tarot (and Jung's archetypes) continue to appeal to me more, as exercises in esotericism go, as they are practices of the mind and conscious efforts to attain a higher spirituality for oneself by using one own mind. To rely on one's religious viewpoint to provide wealth or health, or to do as Unity does in insisting they exist where all evidence states they are lacking, is to exceed my willingness to play along.… (mais)

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