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The Life and Thought of Kanzo Uchimura, 1861-1930

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Author : Hiroshi Miura
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802842053
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Thought of Kanzo Uchimura, 1861-1930 written by Hiroshi Miura and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While staying in the United States in 1884 at the age of 23, Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930) felt a sense of religious calling that led him to devote the rest of his life to Christian mission in Japan. His subsequent life and work earned him recognition as one of the most important Japanese thinkers, essayists, and theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Uchimura claimed that Japan adopted Western civilization at the reopening of the country in the late nineteenth century but did not adopt Christianity itself -- the very cause, spirit, and life of Western civilization. This was the origin of all the difficulties Japan had been experiencing. There is no question that Uchimura believed Christianity would save Japan and the Japanese; the real question was "What kind of Christianity?" In his view Christian faith entails a radical dependence on the gospel; baptism, communion, and the other sacraments are not necessary. He also believed that God's truth can be revealed directly to each individual, so that an intermediary between God and people, such as a minister, priest, or pope, is not required. This argument led Uchimura to start the Mukyokai-shugi (Non-churchism), a denial of the institutional church. Miura here explores in depth this theme in Uchimura's thought as well as Uchimura's particular vision of Japan's mission to the world. This study not only offers Western readers new information about Kanzo Uchimura and the Japanese Non- church Movement; it also provides important insights into the way Christianity can be indigenized in a new culture, such as that of modern Japan.

JAPAN'S MODERN PROPHET

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Author : John F. Howes
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774811453
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book JAPAN'S MODERN PROPHET written by John F. Howes and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers. His ideasinfluenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religiousleaders. The originator and proponent of a particularly"Japanese" form of Christianity known as mukyôkai, Uchimurastruggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and hislove for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earneda reputation as the most consistent critic of his society andknowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible.Through this exceptional man’s life, John Howes charts what itmeant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.

The Diary of a Japanese Convert

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Author : Kanzō Uchimura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of a Japanese Convert written by Kanzō Uchimura and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How I Became a Christian

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Author : Kanzō Uchimura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How I Became a Christian written by Kanzō Uchimura and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to Ecclesiology

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Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780830826889
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Ecclesiology written by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2002-10-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides an up-to-date survey and analysis of the major ecclesiological traditions, the most important theologians, and a number of contextual approaches to both the unity and the diversity of ecclesiastic understandings and practices.

Community-Identity Construction in Galatians

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Author : Atsuhiro Asano
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056703027X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Community-Identity Construction in Galatians written by Atsuhiro Asano and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of community-identity construction in Galatians is considered using two methods: first, by applying anthropological theories to the mechanism and natures of community-identity and its construction, and second, by comparing the Galatian community with another minority religious community. Asano argues that Paul's effort at identity construction is partially conditioned by his self-awareness as an autonomous apostle and by the external pressures of the significant groups elsewhere. Paul's conflict, depicted in Galatians 2 and projected upon the Galatian situation, is understood as a conflict between the ethno-centred and the 'instrumental mode' of community constructions, the latter of which is free from the constraints of core ethnic sentiment. Galatians 4.21-31 is identified as a conceptual framework (or 'recreated worldview') for the community members to be assured of their authentic existence under marginalizing pressure. This recreated worldview is ritually acted out in baptism with the egalitarian motif (Gal 3.28) to help internalize the authentic identity. Finally, Paul's letter is suggested to have functioned as a physical locus of community-identity. Thus the autographic marker (Gal 6.11) directs the attention of the audience not only to the conceptual content but to the presence of the founding apostle that the letter replaces.

Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context

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Author : Atsuyoshi Fujiwara
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 163087647X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context written by Atsuyoshi Fujiwara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture. On the one hand, Christian faith claims to originate in the revelation of God, which transforms culture itself. On the other hand, all such revelation is inevitably received and interpreted by humans in concrete situations. It is no exaggeration to say that two millennia of church history have continually demonstrated the struggle between Christian faith and culture. In an effort to address this struggle, this book explores relevant issues pertinent to the relationship between faith and culture in the particular context of Japan. In this unique work, the context of Japan, well known as a desolate swamp for Christian missions, provides the setting for a re-exploration of issues pertaining to theology of culture. As such, Japan provides both a concrete and challenging context to work out a theology of culture. This book also helpfully illuminates for Western readers some key problems that may not have appeared fully in their contexts yet but will do so as the post-Christendom era continues.

Three Mile an Hour God

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Author : Kosuke Koyama
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334061474
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Three Mile an Hour God written by Kosuke Koyama and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.' Once we grasp that in Christ God chooses to walk amongst us, it changes our whole understanding of the speed of love, and the speed of theology. In Three Mile an Hour God, renowned Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama reflects beautifully on a theme lost to western theology and western culture in general – the need for slowness. With a new foreword from John Swinton

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 16 North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia (1800-1914)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429905
Total Pages : 843 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 16 North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia (1800-1914) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 16 (CMR 16) covering North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 16, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel.

Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West

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Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004213821
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West written by Sukehiro Hirakawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory chapters cover Japan’s historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan’s turn to the West; Japan’s return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.

A History of Japanese Theology

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Author : Yasuo Furuya
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802841087
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A History of Japanese Theology written by Yasuo Furuya and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. The authors clarify the tumultuous history of Japanese Christianity and describe the context, methodology, and goals shaping Japanese theology today.

Religions of Japan in Practice

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Author : George J. Tanabe Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214743
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Religions of Japan in Practice written by George J. Tanabe Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts. Religions of Japan in Practice is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan.

The Golden Laws

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Author : Ryuho Okawa
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8184951256
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Laws written by Ryuho Okawa and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, Great Guiding Spirits of Light have been present on Earth in both the East and the West at crucial points in human history to further our spiritual development. Among them were Shakyamuni Buddha, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Socrates, Krishna and Mohammed. The Golden Laws reveals how Buddha’s Plan has been unfolding on Earth, and outlines five thousand years of the secret history of humankind. Once we understand the true course of history, through past, present and into the future, we cannot help but become aware of the significance of our spiritual mission in the present age.

The Friend

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Author : Samuel Chenery Damon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Friend written by Samuel Chenery Damon and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought

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Author : J. Giles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589820
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought written by J. Giles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard knew nothing of Japanese philosophy yet the links between his own ideas and Japanese philosophers are remarkable. The book examines Kierkegaard in terms of Shinto, Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, the Samurai, the famous Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers, and in terms of pivotal Japanese thinkers who were influenced by Kierkegaard.

Theology in Japan

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Author : J. Nelson Jennings
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761830504
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Theology in Japan written by J. Nelson Jennings and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese Christian leader Takakura Tokutaro, 1885-1934, is the focus of this exhaustive historical and theological study. Takakura's life spanned a critical period in developing Japan, a new member of the "modern family of nations." At the age of 21, through the preaching of the immensely influential church leader Uemura Masahisa, Takakura converted to the Christian faith. He later spent over two years in the West, reading extensively in British and German theology. Takakura thus faced the challenge of absorbing numerous lines of influence and re-articulating the Christian faith within his own generation's distinctly Japanese linguistic and religio-cultural context. His personal religious experience was a microcosm of the universalization of Christian theology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Despite having played important leadership roles within the Protestant Church in Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s, Takakura's name is scarcely known outside limited Japanese theological circles. This study lends recognition to his influential role in the Christian Church. It also utilizes Takakura's example to provide further insight into the universalizing trend in Christian thought that continues even today.

Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times

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Author : John W. Dower
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719019142
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Japanese History & Culture from Ancient to Modern Times written by John W. Dower and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: