Confessions of ‘the Weak’:

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" Confessions of ‘the Weak’: "
Jeffrey L. McEntire

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067135
Doc. No	:	LA110764
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341560‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jeffrey L. McEntire
Title & Author	:	Confessions of ‘the Weak’: [Article] : The Ecclesiastical Hindrance of Determinism in Silence\ Jeffrey L. McEntire
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	49/2
Page No	:	164–178
Abstract	:	Christ imagery in Silence represents Endō’s intentional progression from ‘father-religion’ to ‘mother-religion’. This paper explicates the former as a distortive ideological belief—the determinism of the ‘strong’ and ‘weak’—that conveys Endō’s aversion for institutionalized and paternal aspects of Christianity; that sows feelings of superiority toward ‘the weak’ in Rodrigues (revealed especially as he administers confession); and that anthropomorphizes as an internal voice that accuses and haunts with fears of inadequacy. Christ’s immediacy through and sympathy for universal suffering relinquishes the categories of ‘strong’ and ‘weak,’ assures a doubting Rodrigues of forgiveness, and—along with the Christian-Buddhist foundation of Rodrigues’ self-renunciation—illustrates the interreligious nature of Endō’s mother-religion. Christ imagery in Silence represents Endō’s intentional progression from ‘father-religion’ to ‘mother-religion’. This paper explicates the former as a distortive ideological belief—the determinism of the ‘strong’ and ‘weak’—that conveys Endō’s aversion for institutionalized and paternal aspects of Christianity; that sows feelings of superiority toward ‘the weak’ in Rodrigues (revealed especially as he administers confession); and that anthropomorphizes as an internal voice that accuses and haunts with fears of inadequacy. Christ’s immediacy through and sympathy for universal suffering relinquishes the categories of ‘strong’ and ‘weak,’ assures a doubting Rodrigues of forgiveness, and—along with the Christian-Buddhist foundation of Rodrigues’ self-renunciation—illustrates the interreligious nature of Endō’s mother-religion.
Descriptor	:	binary
Descriptor	:	confession
Descriptor	:	determinism
Descriptor	:	Endō Shūsaku
Descriptor	:	intercultural theology
Descriptor	:	literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341560‬