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Description of  Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo's Classic Novel

Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as "Japan's Graham Greene," and Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom the face of Christ and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Read more