A Passageway from Nishida Kitaro’s Philosophy to the Christian Theology of Holy Spirit

With a View to Establishment of the Theology of Topology

Abstract

The author’s main concern in pursuing problems in philosophy has so far been with a possibility of establishment of a Christian theology, uniquely Japanese, with full comprehesion of Japanese spirituality, partially revealed by the logical steps taken by Nishida Kitaro in his philosophical studies. The result has been the author’s conclusion that there exists the royal road from Nishida’s philosophy to the theology of Holy Spirit, and that a passageway to the new philosophy should lie in systematic formation of the topological theology of Holy Trinity. In addition, the Christian faith, logically backed up by this theology of Holy Spirit, should not only bring itself into close contact with the philosophy of Japanese spirituality advanced by Suzuki Daisetsu but help to start a kind of religious revolution: something globally and universally awaited in this new century. Only in this direction is Nishida’s philosophy expected to be genuinely deepened and developed by his disciples. These are some of the conclusions that the author has reached at the end of his nearly livelong inquiry into these important philosophical and religious problems.