The '''Unification Church''' was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon, a Christian minister from northern Korea. It preaches a universalist doctrine of salvation based on a doctrine called the Unification Principle. <ref>The church's teachings are written in Korean, and were re-translated in 1996 as ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' [http://www.unification.net/dp96/] </ref> | The '''Unification Church''' was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon, a Christian minister from northern Korea. It preaches a universalist doctrine of salvation based on a doctrine called the Unification Principle. <ref>The church's teachings are written in Korean, and were re-translated in 1996 as ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' [http://www.unification.net/dp96/] </ref> |