Heavenly Parent (천부모님, Cheon Bumonim) is the preferred term for God in contemporary Unification theology, introduced by True Mother to emphasize that God embodies both masculine and feminine aspects — not merely the paternal “Heavenly Father” of traditional Christian language.
The shift matters theologically: if God is Heavenly Parent (both mother and father), then human love at its fullest — especially parental love in a family — is the closest earthly reflection of God’s nature. This is why the family is the basic unit of salvation in Unification thought, and why True Parents take on cosmic significance.
In practical prayer terms (see 2026-04-10-prayer-as-active-devotion-not-petition), addressing God as Heavenly Parent shifts the relational frame: not petitioning a distant king, but comforting a grieving parent who has been waiting for lost children.