Uchimura Kanzô was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers. His ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders. The originator and proponent of a particularly “Japanese” form of Christianity known as mukyôkai, 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 knowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. Through this exceptional man’s life, John Howes charts what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.
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John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Government of Japan in 2004.
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This review is from: Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930 (Asian Religions and Society) (Paperback)
Howes surprised me with his patient account of this deep thinker and passionate, somewhat troubled Christian. I am not religious, but nevertheless found inspiration in the passionate struggle of Uchimura to attain virtue -- not freedom from sin, but a compromise to live with little sin as best he could.Perhaps the concept of sin doesn't feel relevant to those who are not religious -- yet we see in this portrait Uchimura's struggle, like Africans educated in Europe, to determine who he is, and overcome what he thinks is wrong with him. Uchimura ends up being a true pillar -- inspired by other Christian ministers early in his life, in awe of their upstanding self-sacrifice and devotion to giving -- Uchimura learns to find strength within himself to inspire, to be an authority on ethical questions. An excellent antidote to the mal de siècle that leaves us feeling a tasteless lack of ethical solidity in North American society today.
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