Seiichi Yagi

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Seiichi Yagi , Japanese 八 木 誠 一 (born February 15, 1932 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese professor of theology , ethics and philosophy at Toin University (桐 蔭 横 浜 大学, Tōin yokohama daigaku) ​​in Yokohama and professor emeritus at Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku , where he taught as a German language teacher .

Live and act

Yagi was born into a Christian family in the tradition of Uchimura Kanzo . Uchimura converted his father to Christianity .

As a Christian theologian, Yagi advocates interreligious dialogue. He completed his studies at the Institute of Humanities at the University of Tokyo in 1955 , which he completed with a doctorate in 1962. During his studies he dealt intensively with René Descartes and Søren Kierkegaard . This was followed by studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen by the DAAD from 1957 to 1959. There he heard Ernst Käsemann and got to know his historical-critical method . As early as 1960 he was an assistant professor at the private Kanto Gakuin University (関 東 学院 大学, Kantō Gakuin Daigaku), then from 1964 as an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, further professorships followed at Toin Yokohama. In 1967 he earned his Doctor of Letters, which Yagi was awarded by Kyushu University . Yagi was a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg from 2000 to 2002 , and other visiting professorships were held at the University of Bern .

Based on his New Testament studies, he advocates a dialogue with Buddhism. In the eighties of the 20th century, he recorded an interfaith conference in Claremont ( California part), Claremont Graduate School Conference of March 1986 . This conference was also known as the "Rubicon Conference" because it introduced a paradigm shift in theology of religion.

Publications (selection)

  • A bridge to buddhist-christian dialogue. Paulist Press, New York 1990
  • The front structure as a bridge from Buddhist to Christian thinking. Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1988
  • God in japan. Edited by Yagi Seiichi and Ulrich Luz , Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1986, 978-3-45900-867-4.

literature

  • Masaya Odagaki : An Introduction to the Religious Thought of Seiichi Yagi. Buddhist-Christian Studies Vol. 9 (1989), pp. 271-281

Web links

  • Photography by Seiichi Yagi, 八 木 誠 一[2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael von Brück , Whalen Lai: Buddhism and Christianity. History, confrontation, dialogue. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2000. ISBN 3-406-46796-2 , pp. 188-189
  2. ^ Yasuo Furuya: A History of Japanese Theology Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1997, p. 147
  3. ↑ Sybille Fritsch-Oppermann : Christian Existence in a Buddhist Context: Katsumi Takizawa's and Seiichi Yagi's Dialogue with Buddhism in Japan. Contributions to missiology and intercultural theology, LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-82584-451-6 , p. 137 ( [1] on google.books.de)
  4. ↑ Werner Neuer : Heil in all world religions? The understanding of revelation and salvation in the pluralistic theology of religion John Hicks. Brunnen / Freimund, Giessen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7655-1755-6 , pp. 69-77; 92
personal data
SURNAME Yagi, Seiichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 八 木 誠 一 (Japanese spelling); Yagi, Seīchi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese university professor for theology, philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama