Tyler Hendricks

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Tyler Hendricks (1948- ) is the president of the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York with an Extension Center in New York City. A typical northern California liberal, with a streak of Calvinism and new age predilections, Hendricks was a seeker and musician until a series of spiritual and relationship building experiences led him to the movement of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in late 1972. He served as a field missionary for three and a half years, pursued graduate theological and historical studies, and undertook a series of leadership positions in the movement.

When Hendricks served as a vice president of the Unification Church of America from 1989 to 1995,[1] he was assisted in developing the church infrastructure by Go Ezaki. He was promoted to the position of church president, a post he held for 5 years, 1995-2000.

Upon the appointment of Rev. Michael Jenkins, Dr. Hendricks was appointed UTS president. Hendricks is presently at work on a project to create a genuinely interfaith theological seminary.

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[edit] Current positions

  • President, Unification Theological Seminary (May 1, 2000 - )
  • President, True Family Values Ministry (May 1, 1996 - )

[edit] Former positions

  • Senior Pastor, New Jersey Family Church (Jan 1, 2001 – Dec 31, 2001)
  • President, HSA-UWC America (May 1, 1995 – April 30, 2000)
  • Senior Pastor, Manhattan Family Church (Nov 1998 – May 1999)
  • Vice-President, HSA-UWC America (Jan 2, 1989 – April 30, 1995)
  • Regional Coordinator, HSA-UWC, New England (Jan 2, 1987 - Jan 1, 1989)
  • Assistant Director, International Religious Foundation, including Director of International Conferences for Clergy, Assistant Director of the Assembly for the World’s Religions, and Director of the Religious Youth Service (Nov 1984 – Jan 1, 1987)
  • Founding Editor, Dialogue and Alliance (IRF, 1986)
  • Assistant Director, CARP America (Sept 1983 – Nov 1984)
  • Director, HSA Ocean Church (June 1983 – Sept 1983)
  • Director, IOWC, Edinburgh, Scotland (July-August 1978)
  • Missionary, HSA-UWC America (Jan 1973 – Sept 1976)
  • Semi-professional musician, San Francisco Bay Area (Sept 1970 – Jan 1973)

[edit] Board Memberships

[edit] Education

  • Ph.D. Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1983
  • M. A. Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1980
  • Diploma in Religious Education, Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY, 1978
  • B. S. Mathematics, University of California, Davis, 1970

[edit] Publications

New World Encyclopedia articles: Ayn Rand, Charles Grandison Finney, Jonathan Edwards, Resurrection, Indemnity, Predestination, John Lennon

“Shopping in Cheon Il Guk: Economics in the Unificationist Ideal World,” Journal of Unification Studies, Vol. 7 (2006)

“The Storyteller,” a review of Alan Jacobs’ The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, in World & I, January-February 2006; pp. 81-84.

“Unification Politics in Theory and Practice,” Journal of Unification Studies, Vol. 6 (2004)

“Exploring Principled Directions for Church Development,” Today’s World (July, 2004)

“Growth, Diversity and the ‘One Body’,” American Clergy, Summer, 2004)

“Church Growth through Start-Ups and Satellites,” Journal of Unification Studies, Vol. 5 (2003)

English language editor, Cloud of Witnesses (New York, NY: FFWPU, 2003)

Managing Editor of the English translation, Lee, Sang Hun, The Report on the Seminar in the Spirit World for 120 Communists (2002)

Editor, “Hawai'i Notes” (unpublished manuscript circulated via the Internet, 2002)

Editor of the English translation, Lee, Sang Hun, A Seminar in the Spirit World for 120 Christians Who Illuminated History (New York: HSA-UWC, 2002)

“Why Grow? Isn’t Jesus Coming on the Clouds?” in Lee, Rev. In Hoi, Creating Personal Vision: Building a Healthy and Growing Community of Faith (Washington, DC: Washington Family Church/FFWPU, 2001)

Editor, “Report: Small Church Growth Conference” (New York, NY: Young Jin Moon Charitable Foundation, 2001)

“Unificationism in America: Models of Success” in Journal of Unification Studies, Vol. 3 (2001)

Editor of the English translation, with Andrew Wilson, Lee, Sang Hun, Teachings of the Four Saints (New York: HSA-UWC, 2001)

“Building a Genesis 1:28 Family: Practical Lessons for Study and Discussion at Home and in the Church,” Set of six videos and workbooks (New York, HSA-UWC, 2001)

Family, Church, Community, Kingdom: Building a Witnessing Church for Working Families (New York: HSA-UWC, 2000)

“UViews” a monthly series of some 80 articles on Unification theology and social issues, Unification News (July 1994 -- 2000)

Editor of the English translation, Koo, Sung Mo, Who Is He? (New York: HSA-UWC, 1999)

Editor of the English translation, Lee, Sang Hun, Life in the Spirit World and on Earth (New York: HSA-UWC, 1998)

“Creating a Faithful Christian Marriage,” “The Communion of Marriage” (with Michael Inglis), “Empowering Christianity Through True Family Values” (with Michael Inglis and Andrew Wilson) and other True Family Values Ministry curricula (New York: HSA-UWC, 1996-1997)

“Tough-minded Eschatology in Charles Finney and Sun Myung Moon,” in Shimmyo, Theodore and David Carlson, Explorations in Unificationism (New York: Unification Theological Seminary, 1997)

Editorial advisor, Exposition of the Divine Principle (New York: HSA-UWC, 1995)

Editor of the English translation, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Blessing and Ideal Family (New York: HSA-UWC, 1993)

“Equality and Order in the Unification Ideal Society” in The Establishment of a New Culture and Unification Thought: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Unification Thought (Tokyo, Japan: Unification Thought Institute, 1991)

“Confession of Faith,” in Thompson, Henry O., What is Truth? A Matter of Perspective (Barrytown, NY: Unification Theological Seminary, 1989)

Editor, Songs of the Garden: For Worship, Celebration and Fellowship (New York: HSA-UWC, 1989)

Author/compiler, Assembly of the World’s Religions, 1985 (New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1986)

Co-author with Andrew Wilson and Hugh Spurgin, Text for the Divine Principle Slide Show (New York: HSA-UWC, 1986)

Co-editor with Frank Flinn, Religion in the Pacific Era (New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1985)

“Some Factors Involved in the Early Rootage and Flourishing of Protestant Christianity in Korea,” in Flinn, Frank and Tyler Hendricks, Religion in the Pacific Era (New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1985)

“Voluntary Association, Intermarriage and ‘The World of the Heart’” in Henry O. Thompson, Unity in Diversity: Essays in religion by members of the faculty of the Unification Theological Seminary (New York: Unification Theological Seminary, 1984)

“Charles Finney and the Utica Revival of 1826: The Rise of a New Religious Paradigm,” (Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion, 1983)

Redactor, God’s Warning to the World: Reverend Moon’s Message from Prison (New York: HSA-UWC, 1985)

“A Proposal Concerning the Image of God in Process Theology,” (Masters Thesis, Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion, 1979)

[edit] Musical Albums

“Avoid a Void” (1991)

“Center Music” (with Atsuko (Tsuruta) Ezaki, 1988)

[edit] Personal

  • Born in Red Bluff, California, October 24, 1948, to Jack and Mary Jane Hendricks, of Presbyterian background and a fourth generation Californian
  • Joined the International Re-Education Foundation (Unification Church), Oakland, CA, Jan. 20, 1973
  • Blessed with Hye Yong Lee of Seoul, Korea, July 1, 1982; five children and one grandson
  • Passions for God, guitar, golf and gardening

[edit] References

  1. ^ New President for US Church, Peter Ross
Preceded by
Theodore Shimyo		 President of the Unification Theological Seminary
2000–present		 Succeeded by
N/A
Preceded by
Mose Durst		 President of the Unification Church of America
1995-2000		 Succeeded by
Michael Jenkins
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