Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context

Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context
Title Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context PDF eBook
Author Atsuyoshi Fujiwara
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 417
Release 2012-07-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1606088637

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In dialogue with H. Richard Niebuhr, John Howard Yoder, and Stanley Hauerwas, this work examines Japanese culture, suffering, and three theologians: Kazoh Kitamori, Yasuo Furuya, and Hideo Ohki.

A History of Japanese Theology

A History of Japanese Theology
Title A History of Japanese Theology PDF eBook
Author Yasuo Furuya
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 172
Release 1997
Genre History
ISBN 9780802841087

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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.

Christ in Japanese Culture

Christ in Japanese Culture
Title Christ in Japanese Culture PDF eBook
Author Emi Mase-Hasegawa
Publisher BRILL
Pages 274
Release 2008-04-30
Genre 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.

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit
Title Christianity, Empire and the Spirit PDF eBook
Author Néstor Medina
Publisher BRILL
Pages 380
Release 2018-05-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004363092

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In Christianity, Empire and The Spirit, Néstor Medina uncovers the cultural processes that play a crucial role in influencing how people understand reality, express the Christian faith, and think about God. He uses decolonial thinking, Latina/o theology, and Pentecostal theology to show how the cultural dimension is a central feature in the biblical text; was the force that coopted Christianity from the imperial era of Constantine onwards; and undergirded Western European colonialism and the missionary project. He engages with Protestant and Catholic articulations on “culture” and demonstrates how most theologians perpetuate Eurocentric frames for considering the relation between Christianity and the cultural dimension. Alternatively, he offers a theological proposal that recognizes the Spirit at work in the phenomena of cultures.

A Free Church in a Free State

A Free Church in a Free State
Title A Free Church in a Free State PDF eBook
Author Surya Harefa
Publisher Langham Publishing
Pages 313
Release 2023-06-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 183973888X

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How does Christ call his people to engage the societies, cultures, and politics of the nations they call home? From prioritizing patriotism over faith to withdrawing from the public sphere entirely, the struggle to navigate the intersection of an earthly and heavenly kingdom remains an ongoing challenge for Christians around the world. Bridging cultures and time periods, Dr. Surya Harefa brings Abraham’s Kuyper’s ecclesiology to bear on questions of Japanese Christian engagement within the political sphere. Harefa offers a contextually robust exploration of evangelical Japanese approaches to ecclesiology and political involvement. Taking care to place Kuyper’s conception of the church within Kuyper’s own political and historical context, careful lines of application are drawn between Kuyper’s theological perspectives and the need for an active Japanese church engaged in all spheres of life. This book is an excellent resource for those seeking to equip Christians to engage politically as followers of Christ for the good of the church and their nations. It also provides an example of the rich and powerful insight offered by exploring Western and non-Western theologies within their diverse contexts and in conversation with each other.

Art and Faith

Art and Faith
Title Art and Faith PDF eBook
Author Makoto Fujimura
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 184
Release 2021-01-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0300255934

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From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity’s quintessential—and often overlooked—role in the spiritual life “Makoto Fujimura’s art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. In this luminous book, he addresses the question of art and faith and their reconciliation with a quiet and moving eloquence.”—Martin Scorsese “[An] elegant treatise . . . Fujimura’s sensitive, evocative theology will appeal to believers interested in the role religion can play in the creation of art.”—Publishers Weekly Conceived over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise. Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman’s words, “an accidental theologian,” one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.

Religion and National Identity in the Japanese Context

Religion and National Identity in the Japanese Context
Title Religion and National Identity in the Japanese Context PDF eBook
Author Hiroshi Kubota
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 301
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 3825860434

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This book focuses upon the relationship between religion and socio-cultural or socio-political aspects in the history of religions in Japan. Religious and ideological justifications in the course of forming a political and national identity, and the mutual relation between political, national and cultural issues can be noticed in every region of the world before the onset of secularization processes, but also in modern nation-states today. In Japan as well, just like in most modern societies, political, cultural and religious elements are closely interrelated. In a comparative approach the sixteen papers in this volume elucidate the intellectual undercurrent in Japanese history of putting positive perspectives on national achievements and cultural-religious uniqueness into service of establishing and refurbishing a national identity.