TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Samuel
TI  - Rediscovering Japan, reintroducing Christendom: two thousand years of Christian history in Japan 
SN  - 9780761849506
AV  - BR1305 .L44 2010eb
U1  - 952 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Hamilton Books
KW  - Church history
KW  - Église
KW  - Histoire
KW  - church history
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophy & Religion
KW  - Japan
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire religieuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index; The origin of the Japanese people -- The lost tribes of Israel -- Hebrew-Japanese cultural comparisons -- The church of the East in Asia -- The church of th East in Japan -- The sixteenth and seventeenth century social, political and economic conditions in Asia & Japan -- The arrival of the Roman Catholic Church in Japan -- The age of persecution -- The hidden church -- The Protestant movement enters Japan -- The clash of cultures -- Christianity in post-war Japan -- A brief summary & conclusions -- A less in missiology & a new beginning
N2  - Japan's Christian history and cultural roots are examined from an alternative perspective. Lee analyzes cultural, religious and linguistic evidence to argue that Christianity was introduced to Japan through the Lost Tribes of Israel, converted to Christianity through the missionary efforts of the Assyrian Church of the East around A.D. 500
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