Reverend sun myung moon biography samples
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Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 2, 1998 - Pages 35-48
The publication of Michael Breen's Sun Myung Moon: The Early Years, 1920-53 is something of an event within the evolving tradition of Unification historiography.[1] This is the case for three reasons. First, Unificationists are, if anything, a people who take their history seriously. Rev. Moon continually treats divine providence and its historical applications in his speeches and sermons, which now number more than two hundred volumes.[2]Wolli Kangron (1966), variously translated into English as Divine Principle (1973) and Exposition of the Divine Principle (1996) and which serves as Unificationism's chief theological text, also focuses to a large extent upon historical matters, devoting more than half of its content to a comprehensive survey of salvation history.[3] Members, likewise, are encouraged to see themselves as being responsible for "all the unaccomplished missions of past prophets and saints who were ca
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As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen": A Review of the Autobiography of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon
“A S A P EACE -LOVIN G G LOBAL CITIZEN ”: A R EVIEW OF TH E A U TOBIOGRAPH Y OF TH E R EV . S U N M YU N G M OON by Ge o rge D . Ch rys s id e s ( U n ive rs ity o f Birm in gh am , U .K.) A p ap e r p re s e n te d at th e CESN U R 2 0 11 In bladte rn atio n al Co n fe re n ce in D an s h u i, Taiw an . Ple as e d o n o t qu o te o r re p ro d u ce w ith o u t th e co n s e n t o f th e au th o r. Identities and autobiographies What makes me the person I am? To think of the self in philosophical terms of minds and bodies does not touch on the distinctiveness of being myself. The real “me”, as distinct from other people, lies in the narratives that inom construct for myself. The social psychologist Jerome Bruner describes such narratives of identity as “that swarm of participations that distributes Self across its occasions of use” (Bruner, 1990:122). A biography or an autobiography seeks to g
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This book is a compilation of Rev. Moon's reflections on his own life—collected from speeches he gave over 50 years in a variety of settings. It is not a highly edited biography but a collection of free-flowing thoughts. As one listens to his life’s journey, one can only conclude that Rev. Moon was a remarkable man. At the age of sixteen, he had a deep experience with Jesus. He came away from that profound encounter fully believing that he had been asked to finish what Jesus had started and build a world of peace and mutual cooperation. He understood that God, our heavenly parent, suffered immensely because His children had hitherto failed to create such a world. His task, as he saw it, was to draw the citizens of the world into a human family that God could rejoice in.
From 1936 to 1953, Rev. Moon searched tirelessly for the philosophical framework—which he eventually called The Divine Principle—that would allow him to achieve this task. Then, because of his wisdom, boundless ener