Mark R. Mullins

Seeing All Things Whole

History & Biography

“Drawing extensively on Japanese sources and scholarship, Seeing All Things Whole provides an insightful intellectual genealogy and analysis of Kagawa's thought and vision of the spiritual, social, and natural worlds. While this study explicates the relationship between Kagawa's mystical experience and his understanding of modern science, it also provide readers with a deeper understanding of his involvement in a wide-range of 'cosmic repair' activities--relief work in the slums and various forms of social and political engagement, for example--which occupied him to the end of his life.”

The Zurich Letters, 1558 - 1579

History & Biography

“Drawing extensively on Japanese sources and scholarship, Seeing All Things Whole provides an insightful intellectual genealogy and analysis of Kagawa Toyohiko’s thought and vision of the spiritual, social, and natural worlds. In this study, Thomas Hastings has shown how Kagawa’s thought was shaped over the course of his childhood by neo-Confucian and Buddhist traditions, post-conversion education in Reformed Christian institutions, extensive study of Western philosophy and science, and profound religious experiences and spiritual discipline. While this study explicates the relationship between Kagawa’s mystical experience and his understanding of modern science and theories of evolution, it also provide readers with a deeper understanding of his involvement in a wide-range of ‘cosmic repair’ activities—relief work in the slums and various forms of social and political engagement, for example—which occupied him to the end of his life.”