Inagaki Hisakazu

Cosmic Purpose

Science & Faith

“From the perspective of 'ontological emergence,' this book may be read as a distinctive natural theology harmonizing the one and the many.”

Seeing All Things Whole

History & Biography

“This is truly an excellent intellectual biography of a Japanese Christian who declares 'My religion is the life with the consciousness reconciled to the Creator of Heaven and earth in the mediation of Jesus Christ.' His unrestricted movement between science and religion is to be expected, because he sees all dimensions of life artfully interpenetrating each other within the arcs of evolutionary history and redemptive love.”

The Zurich Letters, 1558 - 1579

History & Biography

“This is truly an excellent biography of a Japanese Christian who declares ‘My religion is the life with the consciousness reconciled to the Creator of Heaven and earth in the meditation of Jesus Christ.’ Acknowledging the failure as well as the success engendered by his tireless efforts to renew the Japanese traditional society with Buddhism and Confucianism, Kagawa was an extraordinary exemplar of the ‘demythologization’ of the self, and his apologetic vision was prophetic in as much as he grasped a future that was as yet not present, embodying a radical hope of an activist spiritual wisdom grounded in and reflecting Christ’s redemptive love. Seeing Christ’s cross as the principle of ‘cosmic repair,’ he saw its salvific effects extending beyond the individual Christian and the Church, beginning with the weakest and forgotten members of society and reaching out to embrace the entire cosmos. His unrestricted movement between science and religion is to be expected, because he sees all dimensions of life artfully interpenetrating each other within the arcs of evolutionary history and redemptive love.”