Unification Principles

The Teachings of Sun Myung Moon

By James Baughman, Tyler Hendricks, et al.



ISBN: 978-3-922947-60-8
Language: English
Pages: 248
Size: 13,4 x 19,7 cm
Hard back
Book containing plates

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Unification Principles was composed as a Unification Theological Seminary Master’s Project by J. Baughman, T. Hendricks and L. Witham with the support of Seminary President Dr. David. S. C. Kim, and under the supervision of the school’s Academic Dean, Therese Stewart, and professor of New Testament Studies, Dr. Thomas Boslooper.
 
The authors’ purpose was to express the teachings of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon for a general readership. With their permission, and more than forty years after its completion in the spring of 1978, KANDO Publishers is pleased to publish this work for a wider audience. We replaced some of the 40-year-old manuscript’s original graphics, which were worn with age, but the text is unchanged.
 
These teachings are of enormous value for any individual, family, organization or nation that wishes to break down the barriers that divide our global human family, alienate us from each other, and torment our souls. The book makes a case that universal God-centered values will lead us to peace in the world, in the family, and within ourselves.
 
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon ascended in 2012, and today his wife, a revolutionary woman named Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, is implementing these teachings on the level of nations and continents. Whatever your faith or worldview, let yourself be inspired by the hope this book encapsulates for a world of authentic freedom, peace, unity and happiness.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
 
Introduction
Religion and Science
The Present Age
 
1:  The Principles of Creation
How Does Creation Take Place?
The Motivation of Joy
The First Blessing
The Second Blessing
The Third Blessing 
Three Blessings Summary
Give and Receive Action
Growth
Freedom and Responsibility
Indirect and Direct Dominion
The Spiritual Realm
The Relationship Between the Physical and Spiritual Worlds

2:  The Human Fall
Legends of the Original Sin
Fallen Nature
The Genesis Story of the Human Fall
Results of the Fall
The Activity of Satan
Freedom and the Fall
Why Did God Not Intervene in the Fall?
 
3:  The Principles of Restoration
Historical Expression of the Principle of Indemnity
The Central Point
The Foundations of Faith and Substance
How is Position Determined?
Predestination
Adam’s Family
The Principles of Restoration in History
The Patriarchs of Israel
The Preparation for the Coming of Jesus
Hebraism and Hellenism in the Roman World
 
4:  The Life of Jesus
On the Interpretation of the Bible
Our Christian Ideals and the World’s Reality
The Birth and Early Life of Jesus
John the Baptist
The Teachings of Jesus
The Disciples
Jesus and the Nation of Israel
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus
God’s Will and Human Freedom
The Paradox of the Cross
Conclusion

5:  The Second Coming
The Mission of the Lord of the Second Advent
Jesus and the Second Coming of Christ
Jesus and Christianity
The History of Christianity: Cain-Abel Divisions
Historical Parallels
The Last Four Hundred Years
Democracy
Christianity and Science
East and West
Conclusion
 
 
APPENDIX
AUTHORS’ NOTE
NOTES
ART CREDITS
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY