Japanese Understanding Of Salvation
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Author | : Martin Heißwolf |
Publisher | : Langham Publishing |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2018-02-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1783683716 |
It is no secret that Christianity has been widely rejected in Japan with less than two percent of the population identifying as Christian. The dominant worldview in Japan is deeply animistic, with beliefs such as the Japanese mana-concept, ki (気), the Japanese soul-concept, and the concept of God/god(s), kami (神), being deeply rooted in the culture and fundamentally influencing society. Dr Martin Heißwolf, with his years of experience in Japan, critically examines Japanese animism in light of core Christian beliefs, such as the concepts of “peace” and “salvation.” Central to Japanese people’s rejection of Christian truth is the diametric opposition of its supernatural message to the natural focus of Japanese animistic folk religion. Heißwolf’s meticulous study is framed squarely within missiological thought and praxis so Christians serving in Japanese contexts are better able to communicate the message of the gospel by more fully understanding Japanese people, people by whom God wants to be known.
Author | : Raymond D. Creer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : God (Buddhism) |
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Author | : Emi Mase-Hasegawa |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047433211 |
This ground-breaking study on the Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku (1923-1996) uniquely combines western and Japanese religious, theological and philosophical thought. The author interprets Endo’s central works such as Silence (1966), The Samurai (1980), and Deep River (1996), from a theological point of view as documents of inculturation of Christianity in Japan. Analysing the social and religious context of Japan in a global perspective, the author identifies a central role for koshinto - a traditional Japanese ethos - in Endo's thought on inculturation. Endo’s change from a critical to a positive acceptance of the koshinto tradition partly accounts for his move from a pessimistic attitude of Christian inculturation in his early years to the growing theocentric and pneumatic concerns of his later years. Essential for Western readers.
Author | : Noriyuki Miyake |
Publisher | : Wide Margin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0956594379 |
Why don't Japanese people become Christians? Miyake brings a pastor's heart and a researcher's mind to a question that has been asked many times in Christian mission. After reviewing Japanese social and religious life and evaluating the history of mission strategies so far, he highlights two key ways that Japanese people relate to religion: first, they look for a sense of belonging to a community, and second they receive religious truth through first-hand experience rather than through abstract doctrine. From this basis he develops a new strategy for churches to reach out into Japanese community.
Author | : Tucker N. Callaway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
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Author | : Tasuku Harada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Carl Michalson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Theology |
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Author | : Mark Mullins |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2018-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047402375 |
This volume provides researchers and students of religion with an indispensable reference work on the history, cultural impact, and reshaping of Christianity in Japan. Divided into three parts, Part I focuses on Christianity in Japanese history and includes studies of the Roman Catholic mission in pre-modern Japan, the 'hidden Christian' tradition, Protestant missions in the modern period, Bible translations, and theology in Japan. Part II examines the complex relationship between Christianity and various dimensions of Japanese society, such as literature, politics, social welfare, education for women, and interaction with other religious traditions. Part III focuses on resources for the study of Christianity in Japan and provides a guide to archival collections, research institutes, and bibliographies. Based on both Japanese and Western scholarship, readers will find this volume to be a fascinating and important guide.
Author | : Christal Whelan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824818241 |
In 1865 a French priest was visited by a small group of Japanese at his newly built church in Nagasaki. They were descendants of Japan's first Christians, the survivors of brutal religious persecution under the Tokugawa government. The Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians," had practiced their religion in secret for several hundred years. Sometime after their visit the priest received a copy of the Kakure bible, the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto, "Beginning of Heaven and Earth," an intriguing amalgam of Bible stories, Japanese fables, and Roman Catholic doctrine. Whelan offers a complete translation of this unique work accompanied by an illuminating commentary that provides the first theory of origin and evolution of the Tenchi. Today, the few Kakure Kirishitan communities still in existence view the Tenchi as strange and flawed, expressing a distorted form of Christianity. It is, however, the only text produced by the Kakure Kirishitan that depicts their highly syncretistic tradition and provides a colorful window through which to examine the dynamics of religious acculturation.
Author | : Susumu Shimazono |
Publisher | : ISBS |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781876843120 |
In this work, Susumu Shimazono investigates the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries.