Thomas John Hastings,J. Wentzel van Huyssteen's Seeing All Things Whole: The Scientific Mysticism and Art of PDF

Kagawa Toyohiko used to be one of many best-known evangelists and social reformers of the 20 th century. founding father of a number of spiritual, academic, social welfare, clinical, monetary, exertions, and agricultural cooperatives, he used to be nominated two times for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1947 and 1948), and 4 instances for the Nobel Peace Prize (1954, 1955, 1956, and 1960).

Appealing to the hundreds who had little wisdom of Christianity, Kagawa believed confident interpretation of nature was once a key missiological factor in Japan. He reasoned religion, that's rooted within the "downward move" of Christ's incarnation, needs to aid the clinical quest and meditate at the function or "upward circulate" implicit in medical findings. via an anti-reductionist methodological pluralism that strives to "sees all issues whole," this "scientific mystic" hired a variety of eastern and Western cultural assets to claim a complementary function for technological know-how and faith in smooth society.

"Focusing on Kagawa's medical curiosity and its impression upon his idea, Hastings indicates the well-known eastern Christian mystic, novelist, and political activist to have provided a prophetic imaginative and prescient of cosmic wholeness to a tragically divided smooth global. In so doing, Hastings reclaims Kagawa's imaginative and prescient for our personal bothered time."
--Ann Astell
Professor of Theology, collage of Notre Dame

"This is actually a good highbrow biography of a jap Christian who proclaims 'My faith is the lifestyles with the attention reconciled to the writer of Heaven and earth within the mediation of Jesus Christ.' His unrestricted move among technological know-how and faith is to be anticipated, simply because he sees all dimensions of lifestyles artfully interpenetrating one another in the arcs of evolutionary background and redemptive love."
--Inagaki Hisakazu
Professor of Philosophy, Tokyo Christian collage, Japan

"Hastings deals a lucid highbrow biography of this nice, debatable jap evangelist and social reformer. In a pluralistic and clinical age of Interstellar and quantum entanglement, Kagawa comes alive back during this quantity and offers us a wide ranging glimpse of the way all issues carry jointly in Christ."
--Paul Louis Metzger
Professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture
Multnomah University

"Drawing widely on eastern assets and scholarship, Seeing All issues Whole offers an insightful highbrow family tree and research of Kagawa's inspiration and imaginative and prescient of the religious, social, and usual worlds. whereas this examine explicates the connection among Kagawa's mystical event and his figuring out of contemporary technology, it additionally supply readers with a deeper figuring out of his involvement in a wide-range of 'cosmic fix' activities--relief paintings within the slums and numerous varieties of social and political engagement, for example--which occupied him to the tip of his life."
--Mark R. Mullins
Professor of jap Studies
University of Auckland, New Zealand

Thomas John Hastings is Senior examine Fellow on the Japan overseas collage beginning in manhattan urban. He used to be previously Director of analysis on the middle of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, and Professor of sensible Theology at Tokyo Union Theological Seminary whereas serving as a Presbyterian Church (USA) undertaking Co-worker in Japan. he's editor of the new translation of Kagawa's Cosmic Purpose (Cascade) and writer of Practical Theology and the single physique of Christ.