Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930 / John F. Howes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howes, John F.

Series:

Asian religions and society series.

Asian religions and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian biography--Japan.

Christian biography.

Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.

Uchimura, Kanzō.

Physical Description:

xvi, 445 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uchimura Kanz� was one of Japan's foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders. He lived at a time of increasing modernization and rapid social change. Known as the originator and proponent of a particularly "Japanese" form of Christianity known as muky�kai, Uchimura struggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and his love for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earned a reputation as the most consistent critic of his society and the most knowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. In addition to teaching and giving public lectures, he wrote numerous books and articles -- in both English and Japanese -- edited newspapers and periodicals, and founded several magazines. Through the prism of this exceptional man's life, John Howes charts, in this tour de force, what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Refuse

Education of a Meiji Samurai

Budding Civil Servant

Birth of a Writer

Justification of Self and of Nation

Out into the World

The Pact with God

With Luther Presiding

The Taught

The Teaching: Christianity and the Bible

The Teaching: Institutions and Individuals

The Last Chance

I Am Not

Christ Is Coming

The Bible and Japan

The Sage

Telling Off the West

Maturing Vipers

What Is Mukyôkai?

Conclusion: Uchimura Kanzô in History

Chronology

Glossary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-445) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74081-4

9786612740817

0-7748-5172-4

OCLC:

166335064