Seeing All Things Whole

Seeing All Things Whole
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9781498204088
ISBN-13 : 1498204082
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Book Synopsis Seeing All Things Whole by : Thomas John Hastings

Download or read book Seeing All Things Whole written by Thomas John Hastings and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagawa Toyohiko was one of the best-known evangelists and social reformers of the twentieth century. Founder of several religious, educational, social welfare, medical, financial, labor, and agricultural cooperatives, he was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947 and 1948), and four times for the Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1955, 1956, and 1960). Appealing to the masses who had little knowledge of Christianity, Kagawa believed that a positive interpretation of nature was a key missiological issue in Japan. He reasoned that a faith, which is rooted in the "downward movement" of Christ's incarnation, must support the scientific quest and meditate on the purpose or "upward movement" implicit in scientific findings. Through an anti-reductionist methodological pluralism that strives to "sees all things whole," this "scientific mystic" employed a wide range of Japanese and Western cultural resources to assert a complementary role for science and religion in modern society.


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