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Preface
Introductory Essays
Yamaji Aizan and Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church
Essays and Meiji Protestant Christian History
Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church
1. Introduction
2. The Awakening of the Japanese People I
3. The Awakening of the Japanese People II
4. The Appeasement Policy of the Restoration Government; The Surprise of Ōkuma Shigenobu and the Beginning of the New Church
5. A Spiritual Revolution Comes from the Dark Side of the Age
6. On Nakamura Masanao
7. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error I
8. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error II
9. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error III
10. Yasui Sokken's View of the Universe
11. On Niijima jō
12. Contrasting Social Phenomena
13. The Pledge of Mount Hanaoka
14. The First Reaction against Westernization— Fukuzawa Yukichi
15. Four Kinds of Thought and the Division of Talent
16. The French Faction—Political Rights
17. The English Faction—Empiricism
18. The Conservative Reaction and the Policy of the Government
19. The Results of the Conservative Policy
20. The Attitude of Christians
21. The University Movement and the Theory of Evolution and Agnosticism
22. Tokyo University against the Christian Church
23. The Rise of Westernism
24. The Kokumin no tomo and Jogaku zasshi
25. The Movement at Dōshisha College
26. Weaknesses in the Work of Niijima Jō
27. Theological Disputes I
28. Theological Disputes II
29. The Attitude of the Church toward the New Theology—Unfairness
30. The Conservative Reaction I
31. The Conservative Reaction II
32. Inoue Tetsujirō and the Christian Church
33. The Victory of the So-Called Statist Education
34. The Stagnation of the Church
35. The Rise of the Business World and Christianity
36. Trends in the Churches Overseas and the Influence on the Japanese Church
37. We Should Not Be Pessimistic about the Future of the Church
38. The Christian Church of the Future
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors