Unification Church Lecture
last worked on 11/15/95
Soc 257
New Religious Movements
Lecture Outline
- Unification
Beliefs
- Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his movement
- The Future of the Movement
Part I
- UNIFICATION CHRUCH BELIEFS
Three Principles of Unification Theology
- Creation
- The Fall
- Restoration
The Fall
- Vertical Fall
- Lucifer
-- Spiritually seduced Eve
- Eve
-- In guilt, consumates physical relationship with Adam
- Horizontal Fall
Consequence of the fall
- World is spiritually divided
between:
[Able-positioned]
[Cain-positioned]
What Is To Be Done?
- Restoration
- God has offer the opportunity
for restoration of several previous occasions
- Each time humankind failed
- Now comes new opportunity
- Sun Myung Moon is God's
agent
Steps Toward Restoration
1. Recognizing Moon's special status
2. Joining Unification Movement
3. Paying personal indemnity
4. Receiving Moon's blessing in marriage
5. Bearing sinless children
6. Leading lives that will produce a sinless world
Indemnity
- Duel meaning in English:
- compensation for loss
- insurance against damage
- Korean meaning:
- the writing off of a debt,
remission, cancellation & forgiveness
- Tang-gam
Part II
- Reverent Sun Myung and
His Movement
PART III
- FUTURE OF THE UNIFICATION
CHURCH
The problem of succession
Rev Moon was 75 in 1995. More than any recent leader of a
significant religious movement, Moon actively planed for his succession.
- The designated successor
is his wife, Hak Ja Han
- The process of her succession
began on Jan 1, 1993 with the declaration that the Age of Restoration
completed
Ideological groupings within the Unification
Movement
- Liberal
- Prophetic
- Theocratic
- Cultic
Next time
Lecture Outline
- Unification Beliefs
- Emergence of the Movement
- The Early American Campaign
- Stratagies to Win Acceptance
- The Organizational Empire
- Future of the Unification
Church
Part II
- EMERGENCE OF THE MOVEMENT
Part III
- THE EARLY AMERICAN CAMPAIGN
Part IV
- STRATEGIES TO WIN ACCEPTANCE
Part V
- THE ORGANIZATIONAL EMPIRE
The Unification Church
- Founder: Sun Myung Moon
- Where: Korea
- When: Early 1950s
- Type of Movement: World Transfoming