Missions Resources - Bibliography
Silence
Authors: Endo, Shusako
ISBN: 0-80087186-3
Publisher: Parkwest Publications, 1980
Type of cover: Soft Cover
Summary: Ready to read one of the most powerful pieces of Christian fiction ever? Silence will thrill you, mortify you, move you to tears, and stoke fury inside of you.
This book is set in Japan in the 1600s, when Christians were being slaughtered by the thousands. A Jesuit priest from Italy ventures into Japan as an underground missionary. He spends a long time in hiding, serving a few Chirstian peasants, before venturing out to find another Jesuit missionary, who is rumored to have recanted his faith under torture.
What happens next is a riveting story that forces the reader to participate in a profound and penetrating debate. You will meditate on the very heart of faith and the meaning of Christianity. If you have never questioned your faith, you might struggle with this book, because it might broadside you. For almost anyone, it will challenge you to examine why you believe, and to feel out whether your faith resides on a foundation of Christian subculture, or on the word that became flesh.
Silence was painful to read, but good, very good for me. This is Christian literature at its best: it is literature at its best, and it is honest Christianity, living, dynamic and real. Shusako Endo is a Catholic Japanese author, whose work flows with a depth many of us believers are never forced to touch.
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