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F. D. MAURICE AND HIS CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENT AND SOME THOUGHTS ON "SOCIALISM OF THE HEAVENLY SIDE" Yoshihiko Masuda*
Abstract
This paper attempts to illuminate the meaning of "socialism of the Heavenly side" in the Divine Principle book. For this purpose, in the first two sections, this paper presents the life of F. D. Maurice and his Christian socialist movement in the midnineteenth century in England and argues that Maurice was no less important than Kingsley as its leader. In the third section, this paper discusses two different meanings of socialism--one opposed to capitalism and the other one opposed to atomistic individualism--and identifies "socialism of the Heavenly side" as the latter. Furthermore, this paper elaborates the meaning of "tricoism" or "the principles of co-living, co-prosperity, and corighteousness" in the Divine Principle/Unification Thought books and asserts that the Divine Principle book views the ideal society
* Yoshihiko Masuda is Dean of the Graduate School of Theology, Sun Moon
University and Associate Professor in Unification Ethics and Sociology of Religion.