Unification Theology & Christian Thought

We need to...rehumanize our education, and I think that this requires a new ideology, and not only a new educational ideology.

To be effective it must be a new

philosophical and religious outlook,

bringing with it a change in the

order of our priorities.

-Arnold Toynbee, from Surviving the Future OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, N.Υ., 1971, p. 43

Certainly among the more controversial movements of our times, the Unification Church has emerged in America, Europe and Asia with a fervent claim to have the ideology -theology-to fill the gap Toynbee describes. In its wake, it has stirred both hope in Christian youth as well as ire among some in the Christian intelligentsia. In this book, the theology of Divine Principle is examined in the context of classic Christian thought by Dr. Young Oon Kim, former associate professor of religion at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea, and presently professor of systematic theology and world religions at Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown. N. Y.