Shouldering the Burden of Belief
Reviewing Shusaku Endo’s Historical Novels ‘Silence’ and ‘The Samurai’
When a pair of Jesuit missionaries reach the shores of Japan in 1643, they know full well they might die for their effort to minister to the hidden Christians of the country.
Shusaku Endo’s historical novel, Silence, presents a fictional account of the brutal trials endured by Japanese believers and foreign missionaries in the seventeenth century. With …
