Lost Gospel of Sufficiency: Myrtle Fillmore, Prosperity, and Forgotten Theology

Tuesdays, March 24-April 14, 6:00-7:30pm CT

This course offers a deep theological and pastoral analysis of the divergent prosperity teachings of Unity co-founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore. While Charles articulated a metaphysical system grounded in divine law, mental causation, and demonstration, Myrtle developed a relational, devotional, and pastoral theology of sufficiency rooted in love, order, care, and belonging.

Over time, Unity institutionalized Charles’s framework as doctrine while relegating Myrtle’s work to tone, devotion, or “women’s spirituality.”

This course restores Myrtle Fillmore as a theologian of prosperity, examines how her teachings were distorted or sidelined, and explores the ethical and pastoral consequences of that drift—particularly for traumatized, economically stressed, or marginalized communities.

Participants will:

• Distinguish clearly between Charles and Myrtle Fillmore’s ontologies of supply
• Analyze the anthropological assumptions underlying prosperity teaching
• Evaluate prayer technologies and their pastoral impact
• Identify how institutional forces shaped Unity theology
• Reconstruct a prosperity ethic grounded in sufficiency and circulation
• Develop teaching and pastoral practices that integrate metaphysics with care

Myrtle Fillmore articulated a distinct prosperity theology—not a softer version of Charles’s teaching, but a fundamentally different one—rooted in what might best be called a spiritual ecology of sufficiency.

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