Mukyōkai

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The Mukyōkai movement ( Japanese 無 教会 , "non-church") is a Christian movement that was founded by Uchimura Kanzō in 1901 and is mainly active in Japan . It initially developed under poor conditions from a split from the Methodist Church . The Mukyōkai movement sees itself as a return to the "original" Christianity of the Gospels . The movement has neither clergy nor sacraments nor church buildings .

The number of followers was estimated at 50,000 to 100,000 in 1956, with about 500,000 Christians in Japan. In 1979 the movement had an estimated 35,000 followers in Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Religion: Mukyokai . TIME Magazine, April 23, 1956
  2. ^ Christianity, The Japanese Way by Carlo Caldarola (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1979).

literature

  • Emil Brunner : The Christian non-church movement in Japan. In: Evangelical Theology. 4, 1959, pp. 147-155.
  • Carlo Caldarola, Christianity: The Japanese Way . Brill, Leiden, 1979, ISBN 90-04-05842-7 .
  • Carlo Caldarola, Pacifism among Japanese Non-church Christians . In: Journal of The American Academy of Religion . 41, 1973, pp. 506-519.
  • Richard H. Drummond, A History of Christianity in Japan . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1971.
  • Mitsuo Hori, Kanzo Uchimura. Builder of the unbuilt church (Mukyokai) . Young Congregation, Stuttgart, 1963.
  • Raymond P. Jennings, Jesus, Japan and Kanzo Uchimura. A Study of the View of the Church of Kanzo Uchimura and its Significance for the Japanese Christianity . Kyobunkwan, Tokyo, 1958.
  • Hana Kimura-Andres, "Christ and (not) one church. Concentrate, update", Leteroj-Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-49905646-0-5
  • Hannelore Kimura-Andres, Mukyokai. Continuation of the gospel story . Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, Erlangen 1984, ISBN 3-87214-301-8 .
  • Scott W. Sunquist (Ed.), A Dictionary of Asian Christianity . Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2001, ISBN 0-8028-3776-X .