Vita di Gesù

'All the same, and I have said it again and again, my own position remains what i have already set forth in drawing a distinction between a fact and a truth in the Bible. In this case too, the Bethlehem nativity might not be a fact, but for me it is the truth' This paragraph comes on the final page o Leggi tutto

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

Mi è stato regalato per Natale da un amico (prete) e chissà perché pensavo fosse un romanzo, invece è un saggio. Parla veramente della vita di Gesù, però da un punto di vista "giapponese". Nel senso che il Cristianesimo non ha mai attecchito in Giappone perché alcune cose cozzano con la mentalità e 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

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

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

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 unique, original, rapturous vision of the life and love of Jesus Christ. It is just one novelist's perspective in his fiftieth year of life, but it is an accumulation of his life experience pursuing the Christ. May it inspire us to pursue Him with such fervor also.