David
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Towards a Hyo Jeong Philosophy of Art
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 18, 2017 – Pages 157-170 I have always believed that art and creativity are among God’s greatest gifts to humanity. When I founded the Little Angels Art School in Korea, I gave the school a motto: “The Three Love Principle: Love God, Love Mankind and Love Your Country.” Through the…
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The Divine Nexus of Music and Mathematics
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 17, 2016 – Pages 159-176 According to both the ancients and their Christian followers, the order of the creation was love, bound together in a unity both mathematical and musical. Indeed, love, divine order, music and mathematics are simply the four different ways of saying the same thing. —E. Michael…
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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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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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Collision Theory in Developmental Relationship
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 14, 2013 – Pages 145-162 Two ontological themes that have been of concern to philosophy since antiquity concern understandings of permanence and change. Exposition of the Divine Principle [EDP] does not distinguish these, but lumps them all together in its general description of relationship. Through the agency of universal prime…
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The Renaissance of Romanticism
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 13, 2012 – Pages 191-214 The Platonic ideal of truth, beauty and goodness is not a bad set of ideals to live by. But where has that gone? For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today taking that stance is almost…
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The Wagner Conundrum: Art as Transmoral or Ethical?
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 11, 2010 – Pages 119-130 My first encounter with the music of Richard Wagner was by way of the fine recording of his Rienzi Overture by George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra as a budding music student in high school. The noble and majestic theme of Rienzi’s prayer moved me to…
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Force and Relationship in Unification Thought and Classical Physics
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 11, 2010 – Pages 185-198 Unification Thought and physics both attempt to provide explanations for the nature of existence, but they begin from different perspectives. Unification Thought begins from a religious perspective and physics from a scientific viewpoint. However if both embody some degree of truth, then we might expect there…
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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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What is the Spirit? Some Physics of Spiritual Existence
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 8, 2007 – Pages 107-124 In the West there is a perceived conflict, or at least a discontinuity, between religion and natural science. Usually when we talk of religion and science in the same breath what first comes to mind is the ongoing creation-evolution debates. Discussions of intelligent design are…