Volume V – (2003)
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Was Jesus the Son of the Priest Zacharias?
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 1-16 Let no one think it a cliché when teachers say they are often the learners in the process of classroom discovery. I had the rare privilege of substituting for a friend on the faculty of the Unification Theological Seminary a few years ago when he…
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Church Growth through Start-Ups and Satellites
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 17-42 The primary theological text of the Unification Church, the Divine Principle, sets forth dual prophecies about the future of Christianity. On the one hand, it states that Christianity is dying. On the other hand, it teaches that Christianity is the central religion that will create…
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Dissonance Reduction in the Early Years of the Unification Movement: A Critical Appraisal of Christian-Unification Relations as Illustrated in Exposition of the Divine Principle
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 43-50 Introductions to the history of the Unification Church are quick to mention that the founding of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) was in fact a circuitous means to the desired end. Rather, because “Christianity couldn’t fulfill her mission,”[1] the…
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Forcible “Deprogramming,” the Japanese State, and International Human Rights
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 51-80 NOTE: This paper is a revised and truncated version of a MA thesis “State Support of Persecution against the Unification Church in Japan” (December 2002), available in PDF format from the Yonsei University library database: http://library.yonsei.ac.kr/dlsearch/TGUI/Theme/Yonsei/main.asp. Most of the primary source materials referred to in…
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Unification Thought’s Methodology and the Dual Characteristics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 81-92 Unification Thought, as developed by Dr. Sang Hun Lee, differs from the Divine Principle in several ways. One of the more significant ways relates to its underlying principles of development. The Divine Principle organizes the basic content of Rev. Moon’s thought and then lays it…
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Cosmic Good and Liberation of the Original Conscience
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 93-110 In 1933, Martin Heidegger became the first National Socialist rector of the University of Freiburg. He delivered a public speech entitled “Role of the University in the New Reich,” in which he praised and celebrated the rise of the new Nazi Germany. After the war,…
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A New Idea for the Mind-Brain Problem
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 111-144 The new millennium has started, and science is still mired with a plethora of difficult problems to solve. One of them is the mind-brain problem, namely, the question of whether the mind derives from the brain or whether it is something that transcends it. There…
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Research into the Ontology of Spirit World and Spirit Persons in Unification Thought
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 5, 2003 – Pages 145-174 This paper is written in response to Reverend Moon’s call for a chapter on the spirit world in future texts of Unification Thought.[1] The spirit world is not simply a copy of the earthly world. Data gleaned from spiritual testimonies describes it as a world…