Japanese Christian leader Takakura Tokutaro, 1885-1934, is the
focus of this exhaustive historical and theological study.
Takakura's life spanned a critical period in developing Japan, a
new member of the 'modern family of nations.' At the age of 21,
through the preaching of the immensely influential church leader
Uemura Masahisa, Takakura converted to the Christian faith. He
later spent over two years in the West, reading extensively in
British and German theology. Takakura thus faced the challenge of
absorbing numerous lines of influence and re-articulating the
Christian faith within his own generation's distinctly Japanese
linguistic and religio-cultural context. His personal religious
experience was a microcosm of the universalization of Christian
theology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 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.
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