Silence and Beauty : Hidden Faith Born of Suffering

A pilgrimage -- A journey into Silence : pulverization -- A culture of beauty : cultural context for Silence -- Ambiguity and faith : Japan, the ambiguous, and myself -- Ground Zero -- Fumi-e culture -- Hidden faith revealed -- The redemption of Father Rodrigues -- The aroma : toward an antidote to trauma -- Mission beyond the waves -- Appendix 1. Endo and Kawabata -- Appendix 2. Kenzaburo Oe's "Human lamb" -- Appendix 3. A summary of Silence by Shusaku Endo.;Internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura reflects on Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and grapples with the nature of art, pain and culture. Showing that light is yet present in darkness, he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and finds connections to how faith is lived in contexts of trauma. --Publisher. Logos Bookstore Association Award Dallas Willard Center Book Award Finalist Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist World Magazine's Best Books Aldersgate Prize by the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year Missio Alliance Essential Reading List Shusaku Endo's novel Silence , first published in 1966, endures as one of the greatest works of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Its narrative of the persecution of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan raises uncomfortable questions about God and the ambiguity of faith in the midst of suffering and hostility. Endo's Silence took internationally renowned visual artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage of grappling with the nature of art, the significance of pain and his own cultural heritage. His artistic faith journey overlaps with Endo's as he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and literature, expressed in art both past and present. He finds connections to how faith is lived in contemporary contexts of trauma and glimpses of how the gospel is conveyed in Christ-hidden cultures. In this world of pain and suffering, God often seems silent. Fujimura's reflections show that light is yet present in darkness, and that silence speaks with hidden beauty and truth. Internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura reflects on Shusaku Endo's novel org.editeur.onix.v21.shorts.Em@7df3fc8b and grapples with the nature of art, pain and culture. Showing that light is yet present in darkness, he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and finds connections to how faith is lived in contexts of trauma