A life of Jesus
Shūsaku Endō (Author), Richard A. Schuchert (Translator)
In A Life of Jesus, novelist Shusaku Endo intended "to make Jesus understandable in terms of the religious psychology of my non-Christian countrymen and thus to demonstrate that Jesus is not alien to their religious sensibilities" He argues that his people would be more open to the motherly side of Jesus: The religious mentality of the Japanese is --just as it was at the time when the people accepted Buddhism--responsive to one who "suffers with us" and who "allows for our weakness," but their mentality has little tolerance for any kind of transcendent being who judges humans harshly, then punishes them. In brief, the Japanese tend to seek in their gods and buddhas a warm-hearted mother rather than a stern 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 Jesus
Biography
v, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780809102693, 9780809123193, 0809102692, 0809123193
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Farewell to the daily life of Nazareth
Near the Dead Sea
Perilous beginnings
Springtime in Galilee
Spies
"The son of man has nowhere to lay his head"
Jesus the ineffectual
Judas the dolorous man
"Jerusalem! Jerusalem!"
The night of the arrest
Men who sit in judgment
"Into thy hands, o lord, I commit my spirit"
The question
Translation of: Iesu no shōgai