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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 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 ...
Unificationist scholars writing on the church's funeral customs cite the Divine Principle which says: "Man, upon his death, after his life in the visible world, goes to the invisible world in a spiritual body, having taken off his 'clothes of flesh' (Job 10:11), and lives there forever." They also note that family and other human relationships ...
Ek Nath Dhakal, Nepalese politician. [16]Mose Durst – President of the Unification Church of the United States in the 1980s, author, educator. [17]David Eaton (born July 2, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and conductor who has been the music director of the New York City Symphony since 1985.
Pages in category "Unification Church beliefs" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Divine ...
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]