Perspectives on Christianity in Korea and Japan: The Gospel and Culture in East Asia.
Edited by Mark R. Mullins and Richard Fox Young. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. Pp. xxiii, 230. $89.95. This volume presents papers from Christianity in East Asia, a project with meetings in 1991 and 1993 sponsored by Meiji University in Japan and the Presbyterian Church (USA). The authors include Japanese, Korean, and Western scholars, mostly Presbyterian, all of whom share an ecumenical Protestant perspective.
Missiologists often cite the contrasts between South Korea's large, rapidly growing Christian population and Japan's tiny Christian minority, but this study attempts …