Essays on the Modern Japanese Church : : Christianity in Meiji Japan.

• Superior document: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; v.27
• Author: Yamaji, Aizan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Squires, Graham.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies,, 2000.; ©2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introductory Essays
• Yamaji Aizan and Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church
• Essays and Meiji Protestant Christian History
• Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Awakening of the Japanese People I
• 3. The Awakening of the Japanese People II
• 4. The Appeasement Policy of the Restoration Government
• The Surprise of Ōkuma Shigenobu and the Beginning of the New Church
• 5. A Spiritual Revolution Comes from the Dark Side of the Age
• 6. On Nakamura Masanao
• 7. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error I
• 8. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error II
• 9. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error III
• 10. Yasui Sokken's View of the Universe
• 11. On Niijima jō
• 12. Contrasting Social Phenomena
• 13. The Pledge of Mount Hanaoka
• 14. The First Reaction against Westernization- Fukuzawa Yukichi
• 15. Four Kinds of Thought and the Division of Talent
• 16. The French Faction-Political Rights
• 17. The English Faction-Empiricism
• 18. The Conservative Reaction and the Policy of the Government
• 19. The Results of the Conservative Policy
• 20. The Attitude of Christians
• 21. The University Movement and the Theory of Evolution and Agnosticism
• 22. Tokyo University against the Christian Church
• 23. The Rise of Westernism
• 24. The Kokumin no tomo and Jogaku zasshi
• 25. The Movement at Dōshisha College
• 26. Weaknesses in the Work of Niijima Jō
• 27. Theological Disputes I
• 28. Theological Disputes II
• 29. The Attitude of the Church toward the New Theology-Unfairness
• 30. The Conservative Reaction I
• 31. The Conservative Reaction II
• 32. Inoue Tetsujirō and the Christian Church
• 33. The Victory of the So-Called Statist Education
• 34. The Stagnation of the Church.
• 35. The Rise of the Business World and Christianity
• 36. Trends in the Churches Overseas and the Influence on the Japanese Church
• 37. We Should Not Be Pessimistic about the Future of the Church
• 38. The Christian Church of the Future
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors.