Category: Volume IX – (2008)
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An Alternative Unificationist Family Church Model: Where, Why and How It Works
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 1-14 During the past year, the Unification Movement in the United States has conducted a series of focus groups, called “Witnessing Summits,” in order to study best practices and to brainstorm about ways in which the movement might become more effective in its outreach. Out of…
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The Need for a Critical Edition of Reverend Moon’s Words
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 15-34 In the history of religion, the work of collecting and preserving the founder’s words normally becomes a priority in the years immediately after his passing. Thus the Gospels were collected and written some 40 years after Jesus’ passing, and the leaves of Muhammad’s revelation were…
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The Gospel of Judas: Is it a Hoax?
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 35-48 What shall we make of the authenticity of the recently published Gospel of Judas? Was this sensational find really written by a second-century scribe, a Gnostic whose theology we are familiar with from the Nag Hammadi texts?[1] Or was it written in our own time,…
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Toward an “Abel” UN? The Unification Movement and the United Nations
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 49-84 The United Nations has been on the Unification Movement’s (UM)[1] radar screen for some time. It was, after all, UN forces who liberated Rev. Moon from captivity at Hung Nam labor camp during the early stages of the Korean War (1950-53). In subsequent years, Rev. Moon…
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The Role of Unification Thought and a UN Peace Council in Solving the Problems of the Middle East
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 85-118 Organizations founded by Reverend Moon have been involved in a variety of projects in the Middle East over the past four decades. The Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), News World Communications, the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), Religious Youth Services (RYS), and Service for Peace (SFP)…
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Blessed are the Peacemakers: Albert Schweitzer as Exemplar
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 119-142 What is a peace-maker? What is a peace-builder? What does a “peacemaker” look like? Whatever these concepts might mean to an array of individual thinkers and theologians, we can probably all agree that peace-building and peace-making are saintly activities. For nearly two thousand years, in…
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Depossession Healing: A Comparison of William Baldwin’s “Spirit Releasement Therapy” and Dae Mo Nim’s Ancestor Liberation
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 143-162 Dr. Shakuntala Modi, who developed her own depossession techniques, gives the following description of one of her clinical sessions with a hypnotized patient named Dave: As Dave looked, he was surprised to see that he had many layers of these spirits still left in…
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Yang and Yin: Unification Thought, Science, and the Book of Changes
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 163-184 In my ongoing investigation of the relationship of natural science to Unification Thought, I have been led to consider traditional Christian ontology time and again. This has suggested to me that an unrecognized aspect of the debate between science and religion is the relationship of…
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Author-Subject Index 1997-2007
You can also use the Interactive Author-Subject Index on this site! Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 9, 2008 – Pages 185-193 Author Index Anderson, Gordon L. “American Democracy and the True Society,” vol. 2 (1998): 95-122. ________________. “Headwing Philosophy and the Law of Nations,” vol. 6 (2004-05): 85-96. Antal, Chris. “Forcible “Deprogramming,” the Japanese State,…