The Myotei Dialogues: A Japanese Christian Critique of Native Traditions

James Baskind,Richard Bowring

The Myotei Dialogues: A Japanese Christian Critique of Native Traditions
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 October 2015
Pages
214
ISBN
9789004302464

The Myotei Dialogues: A Japanese Christian Critique of Native Traditions

James Baskind,Richard Bowring

The Myotei Dialogues is the first complete English translation one of the most important works of early Japanese Christianity. Fukansai Habian’s Myotei mondo (1605) presents a sharp critique of the three main Japanese traditions, Buddhism, Shinto, and Confucianism, followed by an explanation of the main tenets of Christianity specifically aimed at a Japanese audience. Written by a convert, it is of importance not merely because it shows us how the Christian message was presented by a Japanese to other Japanese, but also for what it reveals about the state of the three native traditions at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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