Developing a Contextualized Church as a Bridge to Christianity in Japan - Softcover

Fukuda, Mitsuo

 
9781908860002: Developing a Contextualized Church as a Bridge to Christianity in Japan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908860006 ISBN 13: 9781908860002
Publisher: Wide Margin Books, 2012

Synopsis

"A breadth of research... based on careful missiological study... could hold an important key to the advance of the Kingdom of God in the land of the rising sun." - C. Peter Wagner What would a truly Japanese church look like - a church contextualized to Japanese needs, that sought to answer Japanese questions from a Japanese worldview? To find out, we first need to find out what those Japanese questions are and to understand how the Japanese worldview works! This study unpacks the social and religious assumptions that make up the Japanese way of seeing the world, and examines the cycle of rituals that make up a Japanese religious life. It then brings these views and assumptions into dialogue with the ecclesiology of the Apostle Paul and of contemporary Western theologians, producing new images of Church which resonate with a Japanese heart, and suggests new rituals which redeem and transform Japanese religious symbols.

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About the Author

MITSUO FUKUDA is Senior Research Engineer and Supervisor at Optoelectronics Laboratories, NTT-a world-leading telecommunications company. Dr. Fukuda is the author of Reliability and Degradation of Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs.

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Publisher
Wide Margin Books
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1908860006
ISBN 13 
9781908860002
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280