The Holy Discourse And Realistic Writing Of Silence

From the words born in the text of the Bible,literature is an important channel for religion to present its experience and the manifestation of God,and the image of God exists in the writer's deep desire.With the theme of "God's silence on human suffering",Silence tries to reflect on the particularity of the way of Christ's weak love through suffering on the cross.The protagonist,father Lotrigo,returns to and rediscovers the God in the Bible through the individual rationality awakened in suffering,opens the way of listening to the word of God in the "essence" behind the "words",understands and accepts the silence of God as the way of speaking and the consistency of suffering and love of Christ.Christian faith is the starting point of Shusaku Endo's literary creation and the prism through which he observes the world.By the vision of the Christian faith,Endo can reflects on the traditonal background of Japan's national politics from the perspective and position of Other,where secular power and religious power are intertwined.Japanese traditional deity religion in human instinctive quality determines the person god oneness of god idea in the world,and Japan's political tradition of theocracy under the influence of such a god idea gradually presents the tendency of "apotheosis",by understanding gradually replace the god of religion development model for Japan's war of militarism boom and a hidden under the emperor worship.By alternating with the Christian faith,Endo thinks Japan's traditional lack of religious belief with the right person has absolute distance of highest good,“God” represented in the Christian thought completely beyond the human world about the concept of absolute good open for at least another ideological paradigm.Through this completely different ideological paradigm Endo observed the deep vulnerability and instability of Japanese national values,and the contradiction of being open and conservative to foreign civilization seriously impeded the improvement and repair of national values.On the other hand,the ultimate refuge of Endo's Christian literature is always the problem of human survival.What deeply attracts Endo's literary creation is his concern for those lives that fall to the bottom of life.Therefore,from the external perspective of the relationship between man and god to the internal perspective of individuals,Silence explores the relationship between individual survival experience and personal belief in the way of story theology.That is,the weak heart,used to betray the believers in the extreme plight of survival in the survival of the state.Since he was forced to be baptized as a believer since he was a child without any concept of Christian faith,he always considered himself as a weak person due to his illness experience in his growth and his social experience of wartime depression,and fully showed his concern for the weak in his literary creation.Endo lost his identity in the great difference between Japanese religious tradition and Christian belief because of his personal religious experience.After experiencing identity confusion,Endo chose to reconcile Japanese culture and Christian belief through literary creation,and tried to find an image of Christ suitable for Japanese people.By imagining the face of Jesus and rewriting the Gospel story in an understandable way,he found the "eternal intimate companion" Jesus for the Japanese.This is the experience of the war Shusaku Endo as a writer and believer from the perspective of the Christian faith to the nihilistic plight of the post-war Japanese people a prescription.