Control and Oppression over the Belief in the Second Coming of Christ : Succession from Juji Nakata to Kiyome Church and Development

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  • 再臨信仰をめぐる統制と弾圧 : 中田重治からきよめ教会への継承とその展開

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Juji Nakata’s Oriental Missionary Society Holiness Church disbanded in 1933 due to Nakata’s claims on the “restoration of Israel” and “the mission of the Japanese people” in the end times. The Kiyome Church agreed with Nakata’s claims and followed him. They continued to follow Nakata’s teaching after his passing, and from 1942 to 1943, and their belief in the second coming of Christ resulted in their oppression and imprisonment. This paper examines the Kiyome Church after Nakata and places the beliefs and claims within the context of oppression. This paper also focuses on how the Kiyome Church adopted and expanded Nakata’s claims in light of the circumstances at the time and how their beliefs justified the national system’s involvement in war. However, the oppression showed that there was a denial of the national polity in their belief in the second coming of Christ, accompanied by such an eschatological view. In the midst of the oppression, their beliefs shifted to something that did not contradict the national policy in order to avoid denying it. Their Holiness faith was suppressed and subsumed by the emperor system.

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