The Unification Church (Family Federation)

Movement·Founded 1954 CE·Disputed. The church has claimed around three million members worldwide; independent estimates are far lower and concentrate the membership in Korea and Japan.

Judaism → Christianity → The Unification Church (Family Federation)

Branch

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →
S Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han — the True Parents. Moon said Jesus commissioned him at sixteen in 1935. He built a church, a newspaper, a shipping business and a political operation, was jailed in the United States in 1984, and died in 2012. Domain The completed mission, the blessing, the lineageStanding Not God. Held to have completed what Jesus was prevented from finishing, which most Christian bodies reject outright Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The cross was a second-best outcome. The Divine Principle holds that Jesus came to marry and found a sinless lineage, was rejected, and took the crucifixion as the remaining route — a reading no other Christian body accepts. Go deeper — context & 1 source →
The family is where the fall is undone. Salvation is not individual here. It runs through a blessed marriage and the children born of it, which is why the movement's central rite is a wedding and not a baptism. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
The nature of reality

A creation designed to become one family and interrupted at the first one

After death

The spirit world is real, populated and worked with; ancestors are liberated by ceremony performed here

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