Again, Rodrigues is horrified by God’s acceptance of the fate of so many innocent people, who have been punished for simply following their faith. There are further deaths, including a village of Christians who are drowned for refusing to renounce their faith. Therefore, Rodrigues is set on understanding what the good is in the torture, death and persecution of Christians. all it sufferings has been bestowed upon us – for everything that Our Lord does is for our good (p. His faith in God is steadfast, but he does start to also think about what his life and the suffering around him would mean if there was no God. There, he witnesses the death of another Christian who refused as he did and begins to question why God has not intervened. Rodrigues is jailed when he is betrayed by another character, Kichijiro, and once there, again refuses to apostatize. When they arrive in Tomogi with their guide, Garrpe, they set up in a hut to practice their faith in secret as those Christians who did not apostatize were persecuted. Rodrigues and his companions are also on a journey to keep Christianity alive during a time in which Christians were tortured and unfairly persecuted in an attempt to wipe out foreign influences in Japan. During his journey, Rodrigues encounters horrible atrocities and sees torture and death and questions not only his religious convictions, but the reasons why God, in his silence, allows these things to happen. They also have another goal, and that is to find out what happened to their teacher, Christovao Ferreira, a respected theologian who has been shamed for renunciation of his faith. The story starts in 1637 when he, along with two other priests, sets out to Japan for missionary work. It tells the story of Father Sebastion Rodrigues, a Jesuit priest who lives in Portugal. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize.Silence was published in 1966 by the Catholic Japanese author, Shusaku Endo. A major theme running through his books, which have been translated into many languages, including English, French, Russian and Swedish, is the failure of Japanese soil to nurture the growth of Christianity. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French literature, graduating BA in 1949, before furthering his studies in French Catholic literature at the University of Lyon in France between 19. (from t Shusaku Endo ( 遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. Before his death in 1996, Endo was the recipient of a number of outstanding Japanese literary awards: the Akutagawa Prize, Mainichi Cultural Prize, Shincho Prize, and Tanizaki Prize. Shusaku Endo ( 遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven.
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