[PDF] Japanese Perspectives On The Death Of Christ eBook

Author : How Chuang Chua
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Atonement
ISBN : 9781913363444

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Writing with an international theological background and his experience as a missionary in Japan, How Chuang Chua presents an extremely insightful study in contextualized Christology. The careful expositions of the writings of Kitamori, Endo, and Koyama are a feast of insights into Japanese culture and theology. This book, however, is far more than an exposition of their thought. Dr. Chua also evaluates their writings for biblical fidelity and compares them to classical theories of the atonement. Their thoughts are also probed for their missiological relevance. This book brims with cultural a

Author : How Chuang Chua
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Atonement
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The study raises and addresses three theological concerns: divine (im)passibility, human violence, and eternal damnation. On methodology, the influence of biography, the problem of language, and the role of Western theology in contextualization are also discussed. Three distinctives of an evangelical approach to cross-cultural theologizing are proposed: the Incarnation as theological model; epistemic humility as theological virtue; and canonicity and catholicity as theological principles.

Author : How Chuang Chua
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
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ISBN : 9781506483702

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_How Chuang Chua presents a study in contextualized Christology through the writings of Kitamori, Endo, and Koyama as an insight into Japanese culture and theology. Dr. Chua evaluates their writings for biblical fidelity, compares them to classical theories of the atonement, and explores their missiological relevance. _

Author : Emi Mase-Hasegawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9047433211

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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 : Martin Heißwolf
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783683716

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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 : Shūsaku Endō
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809123193

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Translated By Richard A. Schuchert; My book called A Life of Jesus may cause surprise for American readers when they discover an interpretation of Jesus somewhat at odds with the image they now possess.

Author : John Dougill
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0281075530

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In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God’s apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day. For seven generations, Japan’s ‘Hidden Christians’ preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity?

Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441221905

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This book explores how religions have changed in a globalized world and how Christianity is unique among them. Harold Netland, an expert in philosophical aspects of religion and pluralism, offers a fresh analysis of religion in today's globalizing world. He challenges misunderstandings of the concept of religion itself and shows how particular religious traditions, such as Buddhism, undergo significant change with modernization and globalization. Netland then responds to issues concerning the plausibility of Christian commitments to Jesus Christ and the unique truth of the Christian gospel in light of religious diversity. The book concludes with basic principles for living as Christ's disciples in religiously diverse contexts.

Author : Emi Mase-Hasegawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004165967

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Shedding light on a wide range of cross-cultural concerns and encounters, going far beyond narrow theological specialisation, the author argues that any successful process of missiological inculturation demands a serious antholopological consideration of indigenous faith.

Author : Richard J. Mouw
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441242171

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American theologians tend to focus on the great hope Christians have through Christ's resurrection, emphasizing Christ's victory while minimizing or ignoring his suffering. Through their engagements with Japanese Christians and African American Christians on the topic of Christology, Richard Mouw and Douglas Sweeney have come to recognize and underscore that Christ offers hope not only through his resurrection but also through his incarnation. The authors articulate a more compassionate and orthodox Christology that answers the experience of the global church, offering a corrective to what passes for American Christology today. The book includes an afterword by Willie James Jennings of Duke Divinity School.