Category: Volume VII – (2006)
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Nietzsche, Apostle of Faith? A Unificationist Reading
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 1-8 Nietzsche is known for being a major atheist and for his statement that “God is dead.” He is also known as the most religious atheist. In this contradictory tension lies the enigmatic thinker, Nietzsche. He was extremely critical of Christianity (see Antichrist) and developed a…
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Beyond Religious Discord: The Divine Principle in Inter-Religious Perspective
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 9-22 The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the Divine Principle (1998), that is, the thought of Sun Myung Moon, from an inter-religious perspective. It focuses on the Divine Principle’s theology of religions and on how the Divine Principle and Unification thought responds…
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Gender in Western Philosophy and Unification Thought
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 23-50 Next to the issue of humankind’s relationship to God as the invisible origin and creator, our existence as male and female beings, men and women, is the one most emphasized in the Unificationist tradition. These two issues are continually stressed in Rev. Moon’s speeches as…
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Shopping in Cheon Il Guk: Economics in the Unificationist Ideal World
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 51-68 The Divine Principle is in part of work of prophecy. The section entitled, “Religious Reforms and Political and Industrial Revolutions since the Renaissance” (364-65)[1] foretells the appearance of the ideal world as it appears out of the environment of the present-day world. It discusses the…
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Quantum Evolution from Atoms to Adam
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 69-110 Reverend Moon’s vision of a sophisticated Unified Science that can fully describe God’s creation is being realized, albeit slowly. The foundations of this Unified Science were laid one hundred years ago with a profound conceptual revolution. This change in fundamental concepts occurred when physicists peered…
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A Case for a Professional Ministry in the Unification Church
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 111-118 In my conversations with some elder members of our church in other states, I have encountered some interesting comments. Do we really need UTS? I never did join a church so why do we need ministers? Even if we need church leaders, why should we…
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A Response to Postmodernism: A Critical Review of [i]The Future of Religion[/i] by Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 119-128 This article is based on an essay which appeared in the September-October 2005 issue of The World & I: Innovative Approaches to Peace and is used with permission. Among the most significant works of postmodern philosophy is Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo’s The Future of…
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A Unificationist Gospel
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 7, 2006 – Pages 129-199 I have for a very long time thought it might be helpful to have a direct, narrative version of the gospel events informed by the biblical theology of the Reverend Sung Myung Moon. In many of his speeches, key passages of which are compiled in…