Japanese Understanding Of Salvation

Author : Martin Heißwolf
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783683716
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Understanding of Salvation written by Martin Heißwolf and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Susumu Shimazono
Publisher : ISBS
ISBN 13 : 9781876843120
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Salvation to Spirituality written by Susumu Shimazono and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Susumu Shimazono investigates the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Emi Mase-Hasegawa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433211
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ in Japanese Culture written by Emi Mase-Hasegawa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0956594379
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belong, Experience, Believe written by Noriyuki Miyake and published by Wide Margin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mark Mullins
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402375
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Christianity in Japan written by Mark Mullins and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tasuku Harada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faith of Japan written by Tasuku Harada and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tucker N. Callaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Buddhism and Christianity written by Tucker N. Callaway and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Strobel
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759202
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Christ written by Lee Strobel and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists primarily of interviews between Strobel (a former legal editor at the Chicago Tribune) and biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger. Each interview is based on a simple question, concerning historical evidence (for example, "Can the Biographies of Jesus Be Trusted?"), scientific evidence, ("Does Archaeology Confirm or Contradict Jesus' Biographies?"), and "psychiatric evidence" ("Was Jesus Crazy When He Claimed to Be the Son of God?"). Together, these interviews compose a case brief defending Jesus' divinity, and urging readers to reach a verdict of their own.

Author : Christal Whelan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824818241
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Heaven and Earth written by Christal Whelan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kazō Kitamori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology of the Pain of God written by Kazō Kitamori and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: