A Life of JesusPaulist Press, 1978 - 179 страница 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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... event , until Jesus was somewhere between thirty and forty years of age he labored for his daily sustenance , living in the company of close relatives and sharing with them what was for all practical needs a single extended family ...
... event , did Jesus by going to the desert find there any- thing to slake the dryness of heart and assuage the starvation of spirit which were with him at Nazareth ? Sometime in February of the year 28 he was baptized by John in the River ...
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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 |