Hearing Absence: Shusaku Endo's Silence and the Dark Night of the Soul
The recent quinquagenary of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and release of Martin Scorsese's film adaptation offer a ripe opportunity for re-engagement with the work. Debate remains about whether Silence presents apostasy as marking the culmination of Christian faith. This paper argues that r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2019
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Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 23-45 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblical Theology
B Faith B SILENCE (Film) B Christianity B Cultural History |
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| Summary: | The recent quinquagenary of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and release of Martin Scorsese's film adaptation offer a ripe opportunity for re-engagement with the work. Debate remains about whether Silence presents apostasy as marking the culmination of Christian faith. This paper argues that rereading Silence through the lens of The Dark Might by St. John of the Cross elucidates its depiction of faith as a journey that continues beyond apostasy. Rather than evidencing the end of faith, a sense of spiritual aridity and divine desertion is revealed as a divinely-led process of spiritual development wherein Endo's protagonist experiences growth in overcoming his religious concepts that conceal God. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2019.0030 |