A Life of JesusPaulist Press, 1978 - 179 σελίδες Shusaku Endo is considered one of Japan's greatest modern writers. Hisnovel Silence is acknowledged as a masterpiece and has been translated intomany languages. The Final Martyrs, published in English just before hisdeath in 1996, reinforced his reputation as a major literary figure.E ndo wasborn in 1923 and converted to Christianity as a boy. His stories and novelsattempt to integrate his religious faith with Japanese culture. Endorsements "This is the whole life of Jesus. It stands out clean and simple, likea single Chinese ideograph brushed on a blank sheet of paper. It wasso clean and simple that no one could ever make sense of it, and noone could produce its like." "Endo's graceful life of Christ ranks with that of Frarn;ois Mauriac as oneof the great volumes of its kind written in this century." "He knows the land. His descriptions of the Judean countryside and the littletowns that dot it, and of the incredibly bleak and empty desert, are amongthe most real and poetic I have ever read." "Endo is a consummate writer who, as a master photographer, brings intensesentiment, character, and movement out of the subtle light and shadows thathe focuses around his subject..." "...characterized by simple language, but reveals a profound perceptivity.The translation by Richard Schuchert deserves a special commendation." |
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... father . With this fact always in mind I tried not so much to depict God in the father - image that tends to characterize Christianity , but rather to depict the kind - hearted maternal aspect of God revealed to us in the personality of ...
... father- image — merits our consideration . The Japanese have a traditional saying to the effect that the four most dreadful things on earth are " fires , earthquakes , thunderbolts , and fathers . " Paradoxically the feminine mother ...
... Father Eugene LeVerdiere S.S.S. was generous in reading the manuscript and was most helpful in identifying those biblical scholars whose names lay well disguised behind the Japanese syllabary . Finally , a word of thanks to Mr. Donald ...
... father Joseph was a carpenter , Jesus also learned that trade . Jews of that time had the custom of wearing something to symbolize their line of work — a dyer , for example , would wear a piece of colored cloth , or a public scribe a ...
... father , but oral tradition holds that Joseph died when Jesus himself was nineteen years of age . On the supposition that he died while Jesus was still in Nazareth , we are led to think that Jesus then assumed responsibility for the ...
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NEAR THE DEAD SEA | 18 |
PERILOUS BEGINNINGS | 29 |
SPRINGTIME IN GALILEE | 41 |
SPIES | 55 |
THE SON OF MAN HAS NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD | 69 |
JESUS THE INEFFECTUAL | 79 |
JUDAS THE DOLOROUS MAN | 89 |
JERUSALEM JERUSALEM | 102 |
THE NIGHT OF THE ARREST | 113 |
MEN WHO SIT IN JUDGMENT | 129 |
INTO THY HANDS O LORD I COMMIT MY SPIRIT | 143 |
THE QUESTION | 156 |