세계평화통일가정연합의 부모론

Abstract

Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) asserts that family perfection is the core value in human life. FFWPU attest that family is the most fundamental composition for perfection of individual salvation as well as a start of a societal salvation. Due to the fall of humankind, God’s ideal creation and its purpose could not be completed. Therefore, it has to be recreated by restoring back to the appropriate creation stage of humankind. Recreation of humankind is about fulfilling God’s ideal creation, and its purpose is to reach perfection of individual. Then perfected individual can perfect family. After reaching the perfection of family, then each individual can perfect subjectivity with the universe. Therefore, perfection of individual and subjectivity is the organic process of reaching the family perfection. It encompasses multi-level meaning such as historic and social level. Before discussing theory of parenthood, the significance of parents’ existence should be explained. Fully understanding the significance of parents’ position will also teach the value of the parenthood and guide to become the ideal parents. This thesis will introspect the significance of existence about parenthood in FFWPU viewpoint. Waiting to become a parent, just relying on the fate of the parenthood, cannot be proudly comprehended as a “true” parent. Hence, today parents ontology should be also discussed as family ontology has. FFWPU’s goal to become an ideal family and reach a family perfection starts off by declaring God as “True Parents”. FFWPU believes that the ontological meaning of parents for God can be conveyed only when origin of the universe, God, is considered as the “True Parents”. Humankind, who were created in a form of God, are bound to resemble “Heavenly Parents” who is known as True Parents. Thus human beings mirror True Parents in the ontological meaning of parents’ perspective. To become like True Parents-like human beings, first humans need to take after the God’s heart and grow into parents with “true” heart; human beings inherit God’s love and become parents with “true” love. In progress, human beings should resemble God’s character and become true parents of true humankind. As FFWPU asserts a perfection of ideal family, it should dynamically play a main role in realizing the significance of existence about parents and meaning of parenthood ontology.