Seeing All Things Whole

"Focusing on Kagawa's scientific interest and its impact upon his thought, Hastings shows the famous Japanese Christian mystic, novelist, and political activist to have offered a prophetic vision of cosmic wholeness to a tragically divided modern world. In so doing, Hastings reclaims Kagawa's vision for our own troubled time."

--Ann Astell

Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame



"This is truly an excellent intellectual biography of a Japanese Christian who declares 'My religion is the life with the consciousness reconciled to the Creator of Heaven and earth in the mediation of Jesus Christ.' His unrestricted movement between science and religion is to be expected, because he sees all dimensions of life artfully interpenetrating each other within the arcs of evolutionary history and redemptive love."

--Inagaki Hisakazu

Professor of Philosophy, Tokyo Christian University, Japan



"Hastings offers a lucid intellectual biography of this great, controversial Japanese evangelist and social reformer. In a pluralistic and scientific age of Interstellar and quantum entanglement, Kagawa comes alive again in this volume and gives us a breathtaking glimpse of how all things hold together in Christ."

--Paul Louis Metzger

Professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture

Multnomah University



"Drawing extensively on Japanese sources and scholarship, Seeing All Things Whole provides an insightful intellectual genealogy and analysis of Kagawa's thought and vision of the spiritual, social, and natural worlds. While this study explicates the relationship between Kagawa's mystical experience and his understanding of modern science, it also provide readers with a deeper understanding of his involvement in a wide-range of 'cosmic repair' activities--relief work in the slums and various forms of social and political engagement, for example--which occupied him to the end of his life."

--Mark R. Mullins

Professor of Japanese Studies

University of Auckland, New Zealand