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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
In his book A Life of Jesus Shusaku Endo talks of Jesus' compassion for those who were suffering in terms of his ‘suffering with them, carrying their burdens with them, becoming an eternal companion for them’. In several of his novels this understanding of Christ as one who suffers alongside humanity is given extraordinary dramatic power. The image of eternal companion is not explicitly discussed but it seems to underlie many of the themes which Endo employs, providing a remarkably versatile vehicle for his creative exploration of how God's power in Christ can transfigure human lives, bringing the possibility of hope and re-creation.
page 85 note 1 A Life of Jesus (London, Pantist Press, 1973) p. 85.Google Scholar
page 86 note 2 A fumie is a figure representing Jesus mounted on a piece of wood or copper plate. Japanese authorities in the seventeenth century forced those suspected of being Christians — under threat of torture — to trample on the fumie, thereby proving either that they were not Christians or that they were renouncing their allegiance to Christ.
page 86 note 3 Silence (Tokyo, Sophia Univ. Press, 1969) p. 271.Google Scholar
page 87 note 4 Ibid. p. 276
page 88 note 5 Can These Dry Bones Live? (London, SCM, 1982) p. 58.Google Scholar
page 89 note 6 The Samurai (London, Peter Owen, 1972) p. 167.Google Scholar
page 89 note 7 Ibid. p. 245.
page 89 note 8 Ibid. p. 262.
page 90 note 9 Ibid. p. 220.
page 90 note 10 Ibid. p. 245.
page 90 note 11 Ibid. p. 215.
page 91 note 12 In the postscript to the English translation of The Samurai p. 271.
page 91 note 13 The Samurai p. 254.
page 92 note 14 I Corinthians 1 v. 25.
page 93 note 15 Scandal (London, Peter Owen, 1988) p. 129.Google Scholar
page 93 note 16 Ibid. p. 217.
page 94 note 17 Ibid. p. 221.
page 95 note 18 Ibid. p. 222.
page 95 note 19 In the preface to the American edition of A Life of Jesus p. 1.
page 96 note 20 A Life of Jesus p. 80.
page 96 note 21 Silence p. 297.
page 97 note 22 The Mediation of Christ (Exeter, Peternoster Press, 1983) p. 72–73.Google Scholar
page 98 note 23 A Life of Jesus. 156.
page 99 note 24 Ibid. p. 174.
page 99 note 25 The Samurai p. 262.
page 100 note 26 Theology Today October 1982 p. 294.
page 100 note 27 A Life of Jesus p. 1.
page 100 note 28 No Handle on the Cross p. 8 and p. 38.
