Theology in Japan Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934)

by Jennings, Nelson J.

• ISBN13: 9780761830504
• ISBN10: 0761830502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-21
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Japanese Christian leader Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934) is the focus of this exhaustive historical and theological study. Despite having played important leadership roles within the Protestant Church in Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s, Takakura's name is scarcely known outside limited Japanese theological circles. This study lends recognition to his influential role in the Christian Church. It also utilizes Takakura's example to provide further insight into the universalizing trend in Christian thought that continues even today.

Author Biography

J. Nelson Jennings is Associate Professor at covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis Missouri.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Endnotes	p. xxvi
The Life Context That Shaped Takakura's Thought: Takakura the Human Being	p. 1
Home and Family	p. 1
First Five Years	p. 1
Two Stepmothers, Relationship with Father	p. 4
Marriage and Children	p. 5
Personality and Character	p. 7
Experience of Meiji, Taisho, and early Showa Japan	p. 8
Education - National System	p. 9
Japan's International Standing - War and Nationalism	p. 14
Political Ethos - Imperial Consolidation and Democratic Tendencies	p. 18
Socio-economic Trends - Growth and New Problems	p. 24
Intellectual Currents - Philosophy and Literature	p. 29
Religious Developments - Organisations and Unstructured Movements	p. 36
Conversion and Career	p. 42
Baptism	p. 42
Church Ministry	p. 44
Death	p. 48
Endnotes	p. 51
The Christian Faith Conveyed to Takakura Through The Church in Meiji Japan	p. 77
Meiji Christianity's Socio-political Context	p. 78
First Two Decades of Meiji	p. 79
Nationalist Challenge	p. 83
End of Meiji	p. 86
Organisational Developments	p. 90
Kumiai	p. 91
Nihon Kirisuto Kyokai	p. 93
Other Developments	p. 95
Theological Understandings	p. 98
Apologetic Writing	p. 101
Japanised Christianity	p. 104
New Theology	p. 105
Ebina-Uemura Debate	p. 109
Uemura Masahisa	p. 115
Theological Concerns	p. 115
The Question of Clarity	p. 116
The Question of Classification	p. 122
Development	p. 122
Socio-political Vision	p. 124
Organised Efforts	p. 127
Endnotes	p. 130
The Christian Faith Conveyed to Takakura Through the Western Church	p. 153
Before Takakura's Time in Britain (Before Mid-1921; Taisho 10)	p. 154
Western Christianity as Mediated through the Meiji Church	p. 154
Western Christianity as Encountered Through Reading	p. 157
During Takakura's Time in Britain (Mid-1921 - Early 1924; Taisho 10-13)	p. 159
Nine Months in Edinburgh - New College	p. 159
Travels on the Continent and in England	p. 163
One Year in Oxford - Mansfield College	p. 164
Baron Friedrich von Hugel	p. 166
Ernst Troeltsch	p. 168
Peter Taylor Forsyth	p. 171
One Term in Cambridge - Westminster College	p. 177
Summary	p. 181
After Takakura's Time in Britain (After Early 1924; Taisho 13)	p. 187
Reading	p. 187
Crisis Theology	p. 188
Personal Contacts	p. 190
Endnotes	p. 193
Takakura's Articulation of the Christian Faith Within His Contemporary Situation	p. 221
Japanese Language and Context	p. 222
Fukuinteki Kirisutokyo	p. 225
Preliminary Observations	p. 225
Chapter-by-Chapter Examination	p. 228
Chapter I: The Bible and its View of God	p. 228
Chapter II: View of Christ	p. 236
Chapter III: View of the Atonement	p. 243
Chapter IV: View of the Life of Faith	p. 250
Chapter V: Special Characteristics of Evangelical Christianity	p. 256
General Reflections	p. 259
The Historical Context of Fukuinteki Kirisutokyo	p. 262
Takakura's Life Context	p. 262
Meiji Christianity	p. 266
Western Christianity	p. 269
Endnotes	p. 272
Analysis of Takakura's Thought	p. 297
The Development of Takakura's Thought	p. 297
Birth Until Conversion	p. 299
Conversion Until Overseas Study	p. 305
Overseas Study Until Death	p. 311
Takakura's Thought in Relation to Western Systematic Theology	p. 317
Takakura and Other Theologians	p. 318
Takakura and Selected Theological Topics	p. 324
Christology	p. 326
Justification and Sanctification	p. 327
Ecclesiology	p. 329
Atonement	p. 333
Ecclesiology, Atonement, and Christology	p. 336
Structural Elements in Takakura's Thought	p. 339
Conceptual Pairs	p. 340
Fundamental Notions	p. 347
Endnotes	p. 352
Conclusion	p. 401
Endnotes	p. 406
Items for Further Research	p. 409
Endnotes	p. 412
Bibliography	p. 415
Author Biographical Sketch	p. 477
Index	p. 479
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