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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... woman who touched his own became eventually his burden . Did the process already begin from the days when he plied his carpen- ter's trade in the town of Nazareth ? Nazareth of Galilee is the town where Jesus grew up . In our own day it ...
... women who work . His story of the woman who searched all over the house for a mislaid silver coin might very well have been based on something that happened in his own family . The woman in an- other parable , who put some leaven into ...
... women . One woman had suffered for years with her illness ( referred to as an issue of blood ) , and when she merely touched his person with the tips of her trem- bling fingers , it was Jesus who felt the unhappiness which had been 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 |