BOOK: The Five Books of Moses:... by Robert Alter "... profound and haunting enigmas, the ambiguities of motive..." https://t.co/mXgbHiBFBW
— unificationism today (@utblog) October 30, 2015
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independent personal comparative view of
Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church
with the purpose of provoking thought and promoting understanding.
Companion blog for the essay: "UNIFICATIONISM a critique & counterproposal"
"A religion does not need to be interpreted literally
in order to be valuable and taken seriously."
—Anonymous
Friday, October 30, 2015
BOOK: The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Sunday, October 18, 2015
BOOK: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach
"Auerbach used... comparative literature to refute any narrow...nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours" http://t.co/y9MPib3JZ7
— unificationism today (@utblog) October 18, 2015Saturday, October 17, 2015
We believe that we know something... when we speak of... flowers
"We believe that we know something... when we speak of... flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors... " https://t.co/J9BeGUwM8j
— unificationism today (@utblog) October 15, 2015Dirk R. Johnson, Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Reviewed by Keith Ansell-Pearson
"Dirk R. Johnson, Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Reviewed by Keith Ansell-Pearson" http://t.co/BuhkvoDsDy
— unificationism today (@utblog) October 15, 2015BOOK: Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism by Dirk R. Johnson, Cambridge University Press
BOOK: Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism by Dirk R. Johnson, Cambridge University Press http://t.co/aKXpWQZhZZ
— unificationism today (@utblog) October 17, 2015Sunday, October 4, 2015
Missing One Thousand Years? | "Byzantium: The Lost Empire"
The Divine Principle "Parallels in History" seems to largely ignore the reality of the one thousand year reign of the Christian Byzantine Roman Empire. It's important that we all be aware of this very critical and influential part of our history. As the old saying goes; "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."—George Santayana
"Theirs was, in their view, none other than the Roman Empire, founded shortly before the beginning of the Christian Era by God’s grace to unify his people in preparation for the coming of his Son. Proud of that Christian and Roman heritage, convinced that their earthly empire so nearly resembled the heavenly pattern that it could never change..."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire
From Wikipedia:
"It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
"Pulcheria... one of the most important figures in Byzantine and even in World History."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcheria
VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "... Pulcheria... the three roles of women laid out in the early Christian Church; sinners, virgins and mothers... "—John Romer, Egyptologist
Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "After Pulcheria, emperors ruled by divine right, and the right of birth, and all western kings imitated them... changed the way men saw women and women saw themselves... "—John Romer
Religious Freedom?
"Justinian I... solidified his power but ended with the deaths of a reported 30,000 to 35,000 rioters on his orders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
Like the Bible, if we look at the Divine Principle symbolically, poetically and metaphorically it expresses a sacred history, not a literal and scientific one.
"Byzantium: The Lost Empire" (full documentary by John Romer)
VIDEO: Fall of The Roman Empire...in the 15th Century: Crash Course World History
Divine Principle Chapter 3 The Periods in Providential History and the Determination of Their Lengths http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-history.html
Divine Principle Chapter 4 The Parallels between the Two Ages in the Providence of Restoration http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-parallels.htmlFrom Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Theirs was, in their view, none other than the Roman Empire, founded shortly before the beginning of the Christian Era by God’s grace to unify his people in preparation for the coming of his Son. Proud of that Christian and Roman heritage, convinced that their earthly empire so nearly resembled the heavenly pattern that it could never change..."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire
From Wikipedia:
"It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
"Pulcheria... one of the most important figures in Byzantine and even in World History."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcheria
VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "... Pulcheria... the three roles of women laid out in the early Christian Church; sinners, virgins and mothers... "—John Romer, Egyptologist
Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "After Pulcheria, emperors ruled by divine right, and the right of birth, and all western kings imitated them... changed the way men saw women and women saw themselves... "—John Romer
Religious Freedom?
"Theodosius I established, with the Edict of Thessalonica, the Christianity of the First Council of Nicaea as the official state religion, reserving for its followers the title of Catholic Christians and declaring that those who did not follow the religion taught by Pope Damasus I of Rome and Pope Peter of Alexandria were to be called heretics...
In 391, Theodosius closed all the 'pagan' (non-Christian and non-Jewish) temples and formally forbade pagan worship."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire
"Justinian I... solidified his power but ended with the deaths of a reported 30,000 to 35,000 rioters on his orders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
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Like the Bible, if we look at the Divine Principle symbolically, poetically and metaphorically it expresses a sacred history, not a literal and scientific one.
"A religion does not need to be interpreted literally in order to be valuable and taken seriously."—Anonymous
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"Byzantium: The Lost Empire" (full documentary by John Romer)
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