{"id":6335,"date":"2016-07-21T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:11:58","slug":"silence-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6335","title":{"rendered":"SILENCE AND BEAUTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silence-Beauty-Hidden-Faith-Suffering\/dp\/0830844597\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silence-Beauty-Hidden-Faith-Suffering\/dp\/0830844597<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am writing a book on how to trust God in the midst of suffering. Recent reads were Endo&#8217;s <em>Silence<\/em> followed by Makoto Fujimura&#8217;s <em>Silence and Beauty<\/em>. I made over 200 marginal notes in the pages of Endo&#8217;s <em>Silence<\/em>. It is an extremely important work for Christians to digest deeply.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Usually a commentary on a great book may be helpful and illuminating, but hardly of the caliber of the classic. This book may break this regular rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fujimura&#8217;s reflections on Endo&#8217;s classic work are simply stunning. <em>Silence and Beauty<\/em> is a wonderful companion to Endo&#8217;s <em>Silence<\/em>. In fact, I would argue that Fujimura&#8217;s <em>Silence and Beauty<\/em> is indispensable to reading Endo&#8217;s work. <em>Silence and Beauty<\/em> takes you into the heart of Japanese culture and rituals. It helps you understand why Christianity is such a threat to its cultural ethos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Silence and Beauty<\/em> is wonderfully conceived and full of compelling insights. Highly recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silence-Beauty-Hidden-Faith-Suffering\/dp\/0830844597 I am writing a book on how to trust God in the midst of suffering. Recent reads were Endo&#8217;s Silence followed by Makoto Fujimura&#8217;s Silence and Beauty. I made over 200 marginal notes in the pages of Endo&#8217;s Silence. It is an extremely important work for Christians to digest deeply. Usually a commentary on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}