Soldier for Christ A Novel
“Soldier for Christ: A Novel” by John Zeugner, published by Wipf and Stock Publishers on March 18, 2013, is a 206-page work written in English. The narrative follows Owen Mathias, a rector’s assistant in Kobe, Japan, as he uncovers the troubling connections between his church and the historical atrocities of Unit 731, Japan’s biological warfare research center during World War II. This journey challenges Mathias’s faith and leads him through a complex landscape of beliefs and doubts, influenced by various figures in his life.
Readers will find a story that delves into themes of faith, morality, and the impact of historical events on personal belief systems. As Mathias grapples with his discoveries, he navigates the contrasting perspectives of his rector, ex-pat parishioners, an American missionary couple, and his Japanese girlfriend. The narrative is further intensified by the backdrop of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, which serves as a pivotal moment in Mathias’s theological struggles and transformation into an ambivalent figure in his faith journey.
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Rector’s assistant Owen Mathias, a young and average sensualist, gradually stumbles on the considerable connections his church in Kobe, Japan, has to atrocities committed by Unit 731, Japan’s biological warfare research center in Harbin, Manchuria, during World War II. Mathias’s discoveries toss him into theodicy’s deepest pit, savaging his faith and pinballing him among the vapid convictions of his rector, the pieties of ex-pat parishioners, the bitter doubts of an American missionary couple, the placid sexuality of his Japanese girlfriend, and the fey manipulations of Japanese witnesses trying to reveal and contain and explain the story. The Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe in 1995 underscores the theological writhings Mathias undergoes and his emergence as an ambivalent and comic soldier for Christ.
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