著者

古賀 敬太

出版者

大阪国際大学

雑誌

国際研究論叢 = OIU journal of international studies : 大阪国際大学・大阪国際大学短期大学部紀要 (ISSN:09153586)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, no.1, pp.21-42, 2021-10

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Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930) was a representative Japanese Christian whoexerted great influence on modern Japanese Christian history. This articlerefers to the Lese Majesty Incident in which Uchimura was prominentlyinvolved. This important affair symbolized the collision between Japanesenational polity, kokutai, and Christianity, and resulted in the persecution ofChristianity. The incident happened because Uchimura rejected the worshipspecified in the Imperial Rescript on Education, causing a dispute over thecompatibility of Christianity and national education based on the rescript, orkokutai. Tetsujirou Inoue (1856-1944), a famous Tokyo Imperial Universityprofessor, attacked Uchimura and Christianity by publishing a series of articlesnamed Collision between Education and Religion. In response to this criticism, Tokio Yokoi, of the Kumamoto faction, MasahisaUemura, from Yokohama and Uchimura who came from Sapporo, refutedInoue's thesis from their own standpoints. This article tries to clarify Uchimuraand Uemura's standpoint on the one side and the problematic standpoint of theKumamoto faction on the other, and point out two different responses withinChristianity concerning the relationship between Chistianity and kokutai. Also we must remember that this difference is closely connected withtheological issues, that is: orthodox theology as distinct from liberal theology. Wewill deal with this issue in the next article: Kanzo Uchimura and His Time( 2) -Theological issues.