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Quotes from senseis
- Moroi, Yoshinori: "For me to write a theological system of Tenrikyo like Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas would require several rebirths." (TJR No.42, p.34)
- Iida, Teruaki: "Incidentally, Dr. Moroi and Prof. Fukaya both recommended students to study Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth. I consider the reason to be as follows: Japan has a long and persistent tradition to expound the immanence of god and the continuity between man and god. This makes it very difficult for Japanese to understand the transcendence of God. Barth, on the other hand, excessively emphasizes the transcendence of God, which is in sharp contrast with the traditional Japanese propensity toward immanence." (TJR No.42, p.35)
- Fukaya, Tadamasa: "The study of Tenrikyo teachings is not necessary to all Tenrikyo followers. However, it is indispensable to those whose work is to convey the teachings to the modern people or those who, educated in the modern world, strive to understand the teachings in full." (TJR No.42, p.63)
- Fukaya, Tadamasa (Moroi's eulogy): "We would also say, "It would be about right to allocate two thirds of our time to non-Tenrikyo matters and one third to Tenrikyo."" (TJR No.42, p.50)
- Kimball, Bruce (The Problem of Epistemology in Japanese New Religions): "However when they make claims for absolute truth or seek to establish themselves over against other philosophies or fields of thought or, particularly, when they compare themselves to other religions or try to do missionary work in other cultures; then they are moving outside of Japanese religiosity and must attempt to explain themselves through more universal standards of intellectual analysis." (TJR No.13, p.84)
- Kimball, Bruce (The Problem of Epistemology in Japanese New Religions): "One problem area concerns the compatibility between science and religion which all of the New Religions appear eager to demonstrate for their own sect." (TJR No.13, p.84)
- Kimball, Bruce (The Problem of Epistemology in Japanese New Religions): "A second problem area is missionary work...It seems self-evident that a religion cannot expect truly widespread success in encouraging others to know its faith until it understands systematically how its faith is known." (TJR No.13, p.86)
- Kimball, Bruce (The Problem of Epistemology in Japanese New Religions): "A third problem area runs quite parallel to that above: dialogue between religions...The staff of these institutes and their publications are generally devoted to elaborating that religion's revelation, which they take uncritically as given, without much attention to comparative religious studies or to the questions: "How do we demonstrate that the revelation of Nichiren, Konko Daijin or Miki Nakayama is true? On what grounds do we establish that such revelation has equality with or priority over other scriptures?"" (TJR No.13, p.86)
- Shimada, Katsumi: "The above-mentioned framework of systematic division in Moroi's "Tenrikyo theology"...is also undoubtedly modeled on the same framework in Protestant theology." (TJR No.42, p.120)
- Shimada, Katsumi: "In Tenrikyo theology today, we rarely consider the issue of its historicity and regard the discipline as an already established system of discourse that objectively stands on its feet. The problem with this view is that it can have a dangerous spellbinding effect on our though when we interpret the Tenrikyo doctrine...But have we been fully aware, until now, of the issue concerning the historicity of the discourse?" (TJR No.42, p.127)
- Shimada, Katsumi: "It is undeniable, however, that the systematic framework of the fields of study in Tenrikyo theology, and the concepts of "theology," and "dogmatics," not to mention "God," "revelation," and "Church," are all mediated by the corresponding concepts in Christian theology. This fact is a very important issue worthy of being fully discussed on another occasion." (TJR No.42, p.134)
