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The Divine Principle or Exposition of the Divine Principle (원리강론; 原理講論; Wolli Gangnon) is the main theological textbook of the movement. It was co-written by Sun Myung Moon and early disciple Hyo Won'eu and first published in 1966. A translation entitled Divine Principle was published in English in 1973. [85]
She was also the first person to translate the Divine Principle, the basic textbook of Unification Church teaching, from Korean to English. [3] From 1975 to 1988 she was a Professor of Systematic Theology at the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York, and the first Unification Church member on the faculty there. [4]
The Unification Church has distinct teachings on politics as depicted in its central book, the Divine Principle. The book argues that God-centered governance will eventually replace existing political structures.
The Unification Church teaches conservative, heterosexual family-oriented values from new interpretations of the Christian Bible mixed with theology from Moon's own text, the Divine Principle. [15] [16] In 1971, Moon moved to the United States [18] and became well known after giving a series of public speeches on his beliefs.
The Unification Church first came to public notice in the United States after sociology student John Lofland studied Young Oon Kim's group and published his findings as a doctoral thesis entitled: The World Savers: A Field Study of Cult Processes, which was published in 1966 in book form by Prentice-Hall as Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion ...
Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church is a nonfiction book about the Unification Church and its founder and leader, Sun Myung Moon.It was written by Frederick Sontag, a professor of philosophy at Pomona College and a minister in the United Church of Christ., [1] and published by Abingdon Press in 1977.
In Controversial New Religions, James A. Beverly describes Wilson as "a leading Unification scholar." [10] Wilson has been editor of UTS's academic Journal of Unification Studies since its inception in 1997 [11] [12] and of all the contributors of this journal, he has the most hits, with 194,242, with his paper entitled "40th Anniversary Forum: The Unification Church in America". [13]
The body is buried in the person's holy robe, with a copy of the Divine Principle, and the coffin draped with the Unification Church flag. [4] Cremation is discouraged in the Unification movement, although it is sometimes practiced especially in Japan where it is required by law.