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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... person who lived for love and still more love ; and yet he was put to death , for he chose to live without violent resistance . My way of depicting Jesus is rooted in my being a Japanese novelist . I wrote this book for the benefit of ...
... persons , vulnerable and ineffectual , who suffer at the hands of those whom they love , and eventually exert a mysterious spiritual influence . Christianity has not flourished in Japan , even though the long history of this island ...
... persons . Con- sequently , the craftsmen of that era did not address themselves to picturing the face of Jesus in realistic fashion . They portrayed " the Lord " by means of symbols — a fish or a lamb , a shock of wheat or a tendril of ...
... person who ever lived . No one has actually seen the face and form of Jesus except for the people who lived with him , the people whose lives he crossed . Even the New Testament in narrating the life of Jesus gives hardly a hint ...
... a quill pen . So Jesus , too , most likely wore somewhere on his person the piece of wood to indicate his being a carpenter . We use the word " car- penter , " yet the work did not consist in Farewell to the Daily Life of Nazareth 9.
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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 |