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Japan's No. 1 Christian has written a novel about the life of Jesus. Author is soft-faced, reedy-voiced, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, who is also Japan's No. 1 writer, turns out quantities of poems, tracts, devotional books, novels on economic and agrarian subjects. Behold the Man (Harper; $2.50) is his most ambitious work...
Among countless critical and biographical studies of Jesus, about a dozen are standard today, either for scholarship or popular appeal. Kagawa's book is not likely to displace any of the dozen. Nor does it rank in craftsmanship with George Moore's fanciful The Brook Kerith (which had Jesus survive the Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like...
...Author Kagawa tells his story from nearly every point of view except from that of Jesus. From the beginning of His mature teaching period until the Resurrection, the impact of His career is shown not only on the disciples and the two Marys, but on the high priests, Herod Antipas and Salome, Pontius Pilate and his wife, the rabble and the revolutionaries of Palestine...
Japanese Protestants insist that their church is far from being on the defensive. Their best-known leader and one of their spokesmen at Riverside, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, last year headed an aggressive Nation-wide Evangelistic Movement which statistically did much better than its American counterpart, the National Christian Mission (TIME, April 14). In 247 meetings it. drew 86,485 people (one person for every three Japanese Protestants, compared to the Mission's one for every 18 in the U.S. Protestant constituency) and made 1,868 converts (adding nearly 1% to Japan's Protestant church rolls, compared...
Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: "Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States...