Review of “Dr. Sadler and The Urantia Book,” by Sioux Oliva
Dr. Sadler and the Urantia Book: A History of a Spiritual Revelation in the 20th Century by Sioux Oliva
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Dr. William Sadler was a highly-respected physician, surgeon, psychiatrist, Seventh-day Adventist minister, lecturer, teacher, author, and investigator by day. By night, from 1911 through 1929, Sadler and his wife Dr. Lena Sadler (who died in 1939) claimed to be in contact with numerous celestial beings who communicated with them through a sleeping man in Chicago. The 196 “papers” that were dictated or delivered to the Sadlers formed the 2,097-page Urantia Book, a treatise on cosmology, God, the history of the local universe, and the life of Jesus and his disciples. William Sadler published the book in 1955.
I had not heard of the Urantia Book until a mutual friend introduced me to Dr. Sioux Oliva last week. I had the good fortune to have coffee with her the next day, after I had an evening to do some...