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If we care to know how deep the suffering of Christ goes—and how vast and even violent is the restoration process through Christ’s suffering—then we had better start with knowing the dark, cruel reality of the fallen world. If we care to embrace hope despite what encompasses us, the impossibility of life and the inevitability of death, then we must embrace a vision that will endure beyond our failures.

Reading Endo, one may come to the conclusion that the type of faith born of strict moralism will not withstand the complex challenges of faith or the circumstances of the fallen world. (81)

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