Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930 /
Howes, John F., 1924-
Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930 / John F. Howes. - Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xvi, 445 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits - Asian religions and society series . - Asian religions and society series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-445) and index.
1: I refuse -- Education of a Meiji Samurai -- Budding civil servant -- Birth of a writer -- Justification of self and of nation -- Out into the world -- 2: The pact with God -- With Luther presiding -- The taught -- The teaching: Christianity and the Bible -- The teaching: institutions and individuals -- The last chance -- 3: I am not -- Christ is coming -- The Bible and Japan -- The sage -- Telling off the West -- Maturing vipers -- What is Mukyôkai? -- Uchimura Kanzô in history.
"Uchimura Kanzo 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 mukyokai, 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."--Jacket
English.
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Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.
Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.
Uchimura, Kanzo.
Uchimura, Kanzo.
Uchimura, Kanzō.
Uchimura, Kanzō
Geschichte 1890-1930.
Christian converts--Japan--Biography.
Evangelists--Japan--Biography.
Christian philosophers.
Christian biography--Japan.
Convertis chrétiens--Japon--Biographies.
Prédicateurs--Japon--Biographies.
Philosophes chrétiens.
Biographies chrétiennes--Japon.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christian biography.
Christian converts.
Christian philosophers.
Evangelists.
Christentum
Christendom.
Mukyokai.
Christentum--Geschichte--Japan--1890-1930.
Japan.
Japan
Japan--Christentum--Geschichte--1890-1930.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
BR1317.U25 / H69 2005eb
275.2/082/092
Japan's modern prophet : Uchimura Kanzō, 1861-1930 / John F. Howes. - Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xvi, 445 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits - Asian religions and society series . - Asian religions and society series. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-445) and index.
1: I refuse -- Education of a Meiji Samurai -- Budding civil servant -- Birth of a writer -- Justification of self and of nation -- Out into the world -- 2: The pact with God -- With Luther presiding -- The taught -- The teaching: Christianity and the Bible -- The teaching: institutions and individuals -- The last chance -- 3: I am not -- Christ is coming -- The Bible and Japan -- The sage -- Telling off the West -- Maturing vipers -- What is Mukyôkai? -- Uchimura Kanzô in history.
"Uchimura Kanzo 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 mukyokai, 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."--Jacket
English.
0774811455 9780774811453 9780774851725 (electronic bk.) 0774851724 (electronic bk.) 1282740814 9781282740815 9786612740817 6612740817
9780774811453 99817242189
Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.
Uchimura, Kanzō, 1861-1930.
Uchimura, Kanzo.
Uchimura, Kanzo.
Uchimura, Kanzō.
Uchimura, Kanzō
Geschichte 1890-1930.
Christian converts--Japan--Biography.
Evangelists--Japan--Biography.
Christian philosophers.
Christian biography--Japan.
Convertis chrétiens--Japon--Biographies.
Prédicateurs--Japon--Biographies.
Philosophes chrétiens.
Biographies chrétiennes--Japon.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Christian biography.
Christian converts.
Christian philosophers.
Evangelists.
Christentum
Christendom.
Mukyokai.
Christentum--Geschichte--Japan--1890-1930.
Japan.
Japan
Japan--Christentum--Geschichte--1890-1930.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
BR1317.U25 / H69 2005eb
275.2/082/092