Shusaku Endo: from the Silence of the East to the Silence of God.
This essay examines several topics related to the problems of faith and, above all, of how people experience the limit(s) of their consciousness and of the world they live in. The main concern is to show how these issues are expressed in modern literature and especially within the specific field of...
| Publicado en: | Theory in Action Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 7 - 24 |
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Transformative Studies Institute
January 2010
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