Volume XV – (2014)
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Dimensional Translation: Travel in the Spirit World
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 159-191 Why don’t human beings, who are the lords of all creation, have wings? Is it enough that people live limited to the earth? Actually we have higher-dimensional wings. Once you die and shed your physical body, you will fly. —Sun Myung Moon[1] [A]ngels and spirits……
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Burton’s Response
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 156-158 View: David Burton’s article Evolution and Unification Thought: an Alternative Approach and the Comment by Jonathan Wells. Jonathan Wells brings up a number of points we do not agree on, but there is one thing do agree on. It is that the modern evolutionary synthesis…
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Comment by Jonathan Wells
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 153-155 View: David Burton’s article Evolution and Unification Thought: an Alternative Approach and Burton’s response to this comment. David Burton’s article, “Evolution and Unification Thought: an Alternative Approach,” references me by name, so the editors have kindly offered me an opportunity to respond. In his article,…
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Evolution and Unification Thought: an Alternative Approach
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 131-152 View: The Comment by Jonathan Wells to this article and Burton’s response to the comment. When dealing with issues of science and religion, evolution is perhaps the most well known point of contention between them. The two camps, “Creationist” and “Evolutionist,” are entrenched. Most Unificationists…
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God’s Silence
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 115-130 One of the most enigmatic questions is God’s silence when atrocities occur and human beings cry for help. The issue has been addressed in terms of the compatibility of all-powerful, loving God and the existence of evil. In theology, this problem is known as theodicy.…
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Two Aspects of Love in God’s Heart in Unification Theism: Biblical Evidence
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 101-114 Unification theism understands God in a new way. God is a God of “Heart” who stands as the “True Parent” of human beings. God’s Heart, which is parental, is defined as his “emotional impulse to seek joy through love.”[1] With this Heart, God treats us…
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Neo-Confucian Principle(s) in the Thought of Sun Myung Moon
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 85-100 True to its original setting in Korea, the Unification thought of Rev. Sun Myung Moon (文鮮明) manifests deep connections with Confucian and especially Neo-Confucian patterns of thinking.[1] My purpose in this article is to trace some of these connections and resonances, both explicit and implicit,…
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Issues in the “Matching” of First Generation Unification Church Members in the Post Rev. Moon Era
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 69-84 The International Blessing developed by the Unification Church is not a wedding which is limited only to Unification Church members. It is the official course that all people must pass through… because the human ancestors fell. If our first ancestors had not fallen, it would…
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“Returning Resurrection” In the Apocalypse of Peter John Olivi: Unificationist Theology in the 13th Century?
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 51-68 When I applied for a job at Unification Theological Seminary, Unificationist John Sonneborn was assigned the task of introducing me to Divine Principle, Rev. Moon’s teachings, so that I would at least have an acquaintance with the confessional point of view of the students to…
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Continuity and Innovation: The last Year’s of Rev. Moon’s Ministry, 2009-2012
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 15, 2014 – Pages 27-50 Note: This article is taken from the author’s forthcoming History of the Unification Movement in the Early Twenty-First Century: The Cheon Il Guk Era, 2000-2013. The Unification Movement (UM) experienced unprecedented turmoil during the last years of Rev. Moon’s ministry. The movement had encountered significant…