Editing Sun Myung Moon (section)

===Establishing beliefs of the Unification movement===
{{See also|Unification movement#Beliefs}}
Moon said that when he was 16 years old,<ref name="auto1"/> Jesus appeared to him, anointing him to carry out his unfinished work by becoming a parent to all of humanity.<ref name="NPR Obit" /><ref name="CNN OBIT" /><ref name="AUTOBIOGRAPHY">{{cite book|last=Moon|first=Reverend Sun Myung|title=As a peace-loving global citizen|url=https://archive.org/details/aspeacelovingglo00sunm|url-access=registration|year=2010|publisher=Washington Times Foundation|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0615393773|edition=May 2010}}</ref> The {{ill|Divine Principle|ko|원리강론||preserve=y|italics=y}}, or ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' ({{korean|hangul=원리강론|hanja=原理講論|rr=Wolli Gangnon}}), is the main theological textbook of the Unification movement. It was co-written by Moon and early disciple [[Hyo Won Eu]] and first published in 1966. A translation entitled ''Divine Principle'' was published in English in 1973. The book lays out the core of Unification theology and is held to have the status of [[Holy Scripture|scripture]] by believers. Following the format of systematic theology, it includes (1)&nbsp;God's purpose in creating human beings, (2)&nbsp;the fall of man, and (3)&nbsp;restoration—the process through history by which God is working to remove the ill effects of the fall and restore humanity back to the relationship and position that God originally intended.<ref>[http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jul1978/v35-2-article3.htm Korean Moon: Waxing of Waning?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216091211/http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jul1978/v35-2-article3.htm |date=16 February 2012 }}, Leo Sandon Jr., ''Theology Today'', Vol 35, No 2, July 1978, "The movement's official doctrinal statement, and a part of the revelation, is the Divine Principle. Both an oral tradition and a written one and published in several versions, Divine Principle is the Completed Testament. The Rev. Moon claims to have come not to destroy or abrogate the Old and New Testaments, but to fulfill them-to "complete" them. To his Moonist followers, the Rev. Moon is primarily "true father," probably the Messiah, and only secondarily a theologian. In an effort to systematize Moon's teachings, several members of the Unification Church in Korea have put together a developing theological system in Divine Principle which is impressive in its imaginative nature, coherence, and consistency, if not in its Christian orthodoxy. As the most complete expression of Moonist teachings to date, Divine Principle is the basic text of the Unification Church. The two major divisions of the system are the doctrines of Creation and Restoration. There are many subsets to these major divisions, but Creation and Restoration are the foci for the Moonist theological system."</ref>

[[God]] is viewed as the creator, whose nature combines both masculinity and femininity, and is the source of all truth, beauty, and goodness. Human beings and the universe reflect God's personality, nature, and purpose.<ref name="Sontag102">{{Cite book | last =Sontag | first =Fredrick | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon | year =1977 | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/102 102]  | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/102  }}</ref> "Give-and-take action" (reciprocal interaction) and "subject and object position" (initiator and responder) are "key interpretive concepts",<ref name="Sontag107">{{Cite book  | last =Sontag  | first =Fredrick  | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon | year =1977  | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/107 107] | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/107 }}</ref> and the self is designed to be God's object.<ref name=Sontag107 /> The purpose of human existence is to return joy to God. The "four-position foundation" (Origin, Subject, Object, and Union) is another important and interpretive concept and explains in part the emphasis on the family.<ref name="Sontag108">{{Cite book  | last =Sontag  | first =Fredrick  | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon  | year =1977  | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/108 108]  | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/108  }}</ref>