Unification Church

=== Esotericism ===
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The Unification Church is sometimes said to be [[esotericism|esoteric]] in that it keeps some of its doctrines secret from non-members,<ref>Evangelical-Unification Dialogue (Conference series – Unification Theological Seminary; no. 3) Richard Quebedeaux, Rodney Sawatsky, Paragon House, 1979, {{ISBN|093289402X}}, pp. 77–99.</ref><ref>[[Frederick Sontag]],1977, ''Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church'', [[Abingdon Press]], {{ISBN|0687406226}}, p. 185.</ref><ref>[[Irving Louis Horowitz]], 1978, ''Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church'', MIT Press, {{ISBN|0262081008}}, p. 114</ref> a practice that is sometimes called "heavenly deception".<ref>''The A to Z of New Religious Movements'', George D. Chryssides
Scarecrow Press, 2006, p. 155</ref> In 1979, critics D. Tingle and R. Fordyce commented: "How different the openness of Christianity is to the attitude of Reverend Moon and his followers who are often reluctant to reveal to the public many of their basic doctrines."<ref>Tingle, D. and Fordyce, R. 1979, The Phases and Faces of the Moon: A Critical Examination of the Unification Church and Its Principles, Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press {{ISBN|0682492647}}, pp. 20–21</ref> Since the 1990s, many Unification texts that were formerly regarded as esoteric have been posted on the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification's official websites.<ref>George D. Chryssides, "Unificationism: A study in religious syncretism", Chapter 14 in ''Religion: empirical studies'', Editor: Steven Sutcliffe, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-4158-2}}, p. 232.</ref>