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Uniform Title Tenchi hajimari no koto. English
Title The beginning of heaven and earth : the sacred book of Japan's hidden Christians / translated and annotated by Christal Whelan
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, ©1996
©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 135 pages)
Contents The Beginning of Heaven and Earth -- The Evil fruit cast to Middle Heaven -- The Division of Deusu's body for the salvation of humankind -- The King's death -- The Tribulations of Santa Maruya -- The Five mysteries of the morning -- A Nationwide search -- Yorotetsu captures the Holy One -- Up Karuwaryu Hill -- Money bedazzled -- The Kirinto -- The Holy One's selection -- Establishment of the officials -- The Destruction of our world
Summary From a universal religion the Tenchi constructs a system of beliefs entirely Japanese in spirit. Its earliest context was in all likelihood the encounter between a storyteller and a group of Kakure Kirishitan
Analysis Kakure Kirishitan
Teologi Teologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-127) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Catholic Church -- Japan -- Membership
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Crypto-Christians -- Japan
11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Crypto-Christians
Membership requirements
Christentum
Christendom.
Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
SUBJECT Japan -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069356
Subject Japan
Japan
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
Author Whelan, Christal, 1954- translator, writer of annotation.
ISBN 0585324670
9780585324678
9780824861605
0824861604