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)
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.
In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians
In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians - 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 In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians write by John Dougill. This book was released on 2016-09-15. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians is a remarkable story of suppression, secrecy and survival in the face of human cruelty and God’s apparent silence. Part history, part travelogue, it explores and seeks to explain a clash of civilizations—of East and West—that resonates to this day. For seven generations, Japan’s ‘Hidden Christians’ preserved a faith that was forbidden on pain of death. Just as remarkably, descendants of the Hidden Christians continue to practise their beliefs today, refusing to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why? And what is it about Japanese culture that makes it so resistant to Western Christianity?
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.
Fight Sports and the Church
Fight Sports and the Church - 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 Fight Sports and the Church write by Richard Wolff. This book was released on 2021-02-09. Fight Sports and the Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fighting sports may seem at odds with Christian tradition, yet modern ministries have embraced them as a means for evangelism and social outreach. While news media often sensationalize fighting sports, churches see them as a way to appeal to male congregants, presenting a peace-loving yet tough model of discipleship. From martial arts programs at suburban churches to urban boxing ministries geared towards at-risk youth, this book examines the substantial history of church sponsored training in combat sports, and presents arguments by Christian ethicists about their compatibility with church teachings and settings. Interviews with boxing and martial arts ministry leaders describe their programs and the relationship between fight sports and faith.
