Tag: History and Historiography
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The Godly Form of Household Government, and Its Demise
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 11, 2010 – Pages 65-90 Reverend Moon’s ruling paradigm, in my view, is that of a relational God who lives for love and whose nature is encapsulated in the three-generational family. These families in which God dwells will form perfect societies and nations in a world of peace. But everyone these…
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Quest for an Interface between Science and Religion
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 10, 2009 – Pages 141-172 “Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: how does one classify him?” -Philip Hefner[1] “Find God in all things.” -Dictum of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)[2] Several years ago while attending a meeting of the Dutchess County Clergy Association, there was a speaker from Fordham University and St.…
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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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World War One and Its Providential Significance for Korea
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 8, 2007 – Pages 79-106 When World War One ended in November 1918, American president Woodrow Wilson was the man of the hour. Standing on a victorious world foundation, Wilson wanted to create a new world order—a brotherhood of nations called the League of Nations. Wilson was inspired by Providence…
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A Unificationist Reconsideration of the Jewish Role in Earliest Christianity, 30-70 C.E.
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 6, 2004-2005 – Pages 97-118 Did God intend to set up Christianity as a new religion apart from Judaism? Did God and Jesus continue to love the Jews, or were they cursed and punished as many influential early church writings suggests? Was the cross really an obstacle for the Jews…
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Notes Toward a Universal History: Insights from the Unification Principle
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 4, 2001-2002 – Pages 87-100 How to convey the historical insights embedded within the Unification Principle is a crucial question. To this point, the Theory of History as developed by Dr. Sang Hun Lee in various texts of Unification Thought has been the chief vehicle for communicating these insights to…
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Endowed with a Sense of History
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 3, 1999-2000 – Pages 85-100 “Communism, begun in 1917, could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the borderline and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore now is the time for people who are…
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Rush to History: A Notable Omission in Postmortem Literature on the Cold War
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 1, 1997 – Pages 1-22 In two dizzying years the world witnessed the epic dissolution of the Soviet empire, beginning with Solidarity’s victory in Poland on June 4, 1989, punctuated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and culminating with the implosion of the Soviet Union…