The Way of the Christian Samurai: Reflections for Servant-Warriors of Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way of the Christian Samurai: Reflections for Servant-Warriors of Christ write by Paul Nowak. This book was released on 2007-06. The Way of the Christian Samurai: Reflections for Servant-Warriors of Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christians are called to be both servants and soldiers of Christ. As this book demonstrates, there is much to be learned from the teachings and example of the Samurai, legendary servant-warriors of Japan, in order for believers respond to Gods call as Christian Samurai. (Christian)
A Christian Samurai
A Christian Samurai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Christian Samurai write by William J. Farge. This book was released on 2016-04-29. A Christian Samurai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a close critical analysis of Baba Bunko's often humorous, but always biting, satirical essays a new picture of the hidden world of Christianity in eighteenth-century Japan emerges - a picture that contradicts the generally-held belief among Western historians that the Catholic mission in Japan ended in failure. A Christian Samurai will surprise many readers when they discover that Christian moral teachings not only survived the long period of persecution but influenced Japanese society throughout the Tokugawa period.
Christ's Samurai
Christ's Samurai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christ's Samurai write by Jonathan Clements. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Christ's Samurai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside their earthly allegiances and swear loyalty to a foreign god-emperor, before seeking paradise in terrible martyrdoms. The cult was in open revolt, led, it was said, by a boy sorcerer. Farmers claiming to have the blessing of an alien god had bested trained samurai in combat and proclaimed that fires in the sky would soon bring about the end of the world. The Shogun called old soldiers out of retirement for one last battle before peace could be declared in Japan. For there to be an end to war, he said, the Christians would have to die. This is a true story.
The Samurai
The Samurai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Samurai write by Shūsaku Endō. This book was released on 1997. The Samurai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.
Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan
Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan write by Irwin Scheiner. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains) sought to overthrow the old order and whose success in doing so has made the study of the modernization of Japan the prime concern of historians. The history of the Meiji period may have been an overall political and industrial success story, but for a fuller understanding of the conditions of that success it is also necessary to understand "what it was really like" for the members of the old elite to be estranged from the proponents of revolution and what many members did to assure their own social and psychological position in a world they had not expected. In this book the author attempts to show that the impact of the Meiji Restoration destroyed the meaningfulness of the Confucian doctrine for these declasse samurai. Through Christianity, the samurai attempted to revive their status in society by finding a doctrine that offered a meaningful path to power. But in doing so, they had to accept a new theory of social relations. Ultimately, as the convert's understanding of society became totally informed by the Christian doctrine, they accepted a transcendent authority that brought them into conflict with society about them. Therefore, to understand the development of a Christian opposition in Meiji society we must begin with the conversion experience itself. [intro]
