Source: FUK Accelerator at Nagasaki
Study Tour of the Hidden Christians of Kyushu.
Editor’s note: Sharon and Dan Corbett have a non-levitical mission running to great purpose in Japan, raising the bar of the biblical ethic and blazing trails for researchers and teachers alike to follow. The Japanese government has made no attempt to cover up or expunge the forensic data regarding the revivals and martyrdom in feudal Japan during this time as researched by Shusaku Endo and Martin Scorsese, et al.
Edo period forensic evidence being unearthed today of the iron-fisted rule of the Tokugawa dictatorship in ongoing excavations by the Japanese antiquities department.
From the meticulously kept records at the Nagasaki Magistrates office, almost every detail has been preserved or copied from another central government office.
Question: What do you think accounts for this change of heart? Why would the people of Japan want the world to know the dreadful events surrounding the persecution of over 300,000 who named the name of Christ on these islands?
For-credit student information: Culture Care is a 3 credit hour elective. The Silence Study Tour is organised by King’s College Singapore in collaboration with Japan Prayer Network, Fukuoka. More info: www.gbgoikos.com
Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture
Here are some issues that will be raised during your time on Kyushu that will guide your thinking process at the intersection of biblical literature, historical movements in the global ecclesia and the theological systems that have sustained forward momentum in Kingdom advance.
There has been no attempt by the Japanese people in covering up or hiding both the revivals as well as the martyrdoms in the feudal period when the Christian church was outlawed and during the persecutions in Kyushu and other places in medieval Japan. What are some factors that might account for this change of heart? you can site politics, geography, religion or modality in your answer.
[Instructions: Using the links below in your virtual tour of Japan during the feudal period, reconstruct the events surrounding the use of the Fumi-e (in Japanese, “fumi” = “to step on” and “e” = a picture or image) as a test of faith used by the magistrates to weed out true believers.
Japan's Holy War on Christianity
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