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«Dopo aver terminato il romanzo Silenzio, per molti anni ho coltivato la decisione di tratteggiare un'immagine di Gesù così come il popolo giapponese può comprenderla. In questo libro non ho presentato la figura dell'ebreo che porta a compimento l'Antico Testamento. Ho scritto come semplice romanziere, senza pretese teologiche». Questa Vita di Gesù, la prima scritta da un giapponese, colpirà il lettore italiano per la realistica figura tratteggiata dal romanziere del Sol levante: un Gesù che conosce la vita della gente comune e dei miseri, che condivide l'acre odore della fatica e del sudore dei poveri, che non ha bisogno di immaginarsi la debolezza dei disperati. Gli occhi tristi del Nazareno saranno per il lettore la rivelazione dell'amore di Gesù per la sua gente e per l'uomo umiliato. A quegli occhi tristi farà riscontro la descrizione dell'atmosfera delle primavere di Galilea. La narrazione, che proviene da lontano, dall'Estremo Oriente, è capace di spingere il lettore ancora più lontano: verso un futuro che sia esperienza nuova di Gesù, che indichi una conoscenza sempre più umana e incarnata.
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- Pagine: 240
- Data di uscita: 16-10-2017
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I am confused between three and four stars for this book. The reason: If you see it as a simple biography of a religious leader/a great spiritual figure written by a secular person, this can be rated with four stars. If you, like myself a believer, read it as a spiritual nourishment, you may rate it Leggi tutto
While there are many things to like about Endo Shusaku's A Life of Jesus , the one that stands out is the great love the author has for his subject matter. In the final series of chapters on the passion and death of Christ, Endo writes: "This third act is the climax to the entire Bible, and for a scr Leggi tutto
“What could he do, therefore, to make himself the eternal companion of all those unhappy people? In order to reveal to them the love of God he would have to draw them away from their world of forlorn hopelessness. Jesus knew that poverty and disease in themselves are not the hardest things for peopl Leggi tutto
Endo's A Life of Jesus is aesthetically pleasing, yet reads like a Jefferson Bible because of its distortion of Jesus' life. The book was meant for a Japanese audience, and I was looking forward to how Endo would recontextualize the Gospel. But his biography is disrespectful to the testimonies of th Leggi tutto
A Worthy Read First published in 1973. Shusaku Endo was a rare thing - a Christian from Japan. He also grew up mostly away from Japan (in China) and spent a considerable amount of his young adult life in France. When he was in Japan, he was different because of his religion. When he was in France, he Leggi tutto
He had some interesting takes on Jesus, I had not heard or thought of before. In general, he is fairly liberal, skeptical of miracles, but also takes a fair amount of the text of the gospels literally. While he does engage in some speculation, he does so drawing upon texts and what is said and not s Leggi tutto
Picked this up as a possible gift for a Christian friend and read it because I might as well. I found it quite interesting, though maybe being a Christian Westerner would have made it more surprising? Dunno. Sometimes he gets a bit repetitive about e.g. transformation of Jesus' disciples from no-goo Leggi tutto
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