Personal History       

 

Name: Mineko Honda (Ms)  

Office/Address:  Nishogakusha Univ.  

2590 Ooi, Shonan-machi, Chiba 277-8585

Japan  

Office  Tel. & fax:  0471-91-8753

e-mail: mn-uchi@nishogakusya-u.ac.jp

Religion:  Christianity

Hobbies: Swimming, Water-colour, Listening to music (esp. classical ones)

 

                        Scholarly Achievements  

Recent Publications

44"Jewish Responses to the Holocaust" International Politics and Economics, 5, Nishogakusha Univ. (1999).

45Japanese translation of Sister Wendy’s Book of Meditations Shinkyo Shuppan,1999

46"Science and Teology," Fukuin to Sekai, Shinkyo Shuppan, (Decembert, 1999). (in Japanese)

47 The Imaginative World of C.S. Lewis (University Press of America, 2000).

48 "T. S. Eliot’s Plays―In Search of Self-identity and Toward Reconciliation with the Reality," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 8, Nishogakusha Univ. (2000).

49 Japanese translation of John Polkinghorne, One World (Tamagawa Univ. Press, 2000)

50 "Auschwitz Survival Writers’ Deaths and Messages beyond Despair―What their Lives and Suicides Tell Us," International Politics and Economics, 6, Nishogakusha Univ. (2000). (in Japanese)

51 Japanese Translation of Helena Wilkinson, Beyond Chaotic Eating (Kagawa Nutrition Univ., 2000).

51 "Encountering the Problem of Evil―An Essay on Theodicy and Literature Concerning Evil," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 9, Nishogakusha Univ. (2001).

52 "From The Waste Land to Four Quartets―T.S. Eliot’s Reconciliation with Time andFutility," The Bulletin of Nishogakusha Univ. 44 (2001).

53 "Shusaku Endo’s Maternal God―From Conflict between Western Christianity and Japanese Religious View to Reconciliation in Religious Pluralism," Journal of The Oriental Research Institute, 31, Nishogakusha Univ. (2001)

54 “Problem of Evil in C.S. Lewis―His apologetics and novels” Essays in International Politics and Economics, 9, Nishogakusha Univ. (2002).

46 “An Essay on Book of Job” Essays in commemoration of 125th Anniversary of Nishogakusha University (2002)

47 “Yahwist’s God, the Old Testament’s first concept of God “International Politics and Economics, 6, Nishogakusha Univ. (2002).

 

Others and all

1 "C. S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces" (Graduation thesis Gakushuin Univ. 1981).

2 "Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis." (M.A. Thesis Gakushuin Univ. 1985).

3 "'Time' in T. S. Eliot's poetry" The Bulletin of Gakushuin Univ. English Department (1985)..

4 "Religious development in Four Quartets," The Bulletin of Gakushuin Univ. English Department (1988).

5 "The meaning of veil in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces," Ronkyu, 23 (1988). (in Japanese)

6 "C. S. Lewis, a Medieval Man," The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanity, Gakushuin Univ. 35 (1989). (in Japanese)

7 "Tragic Elements in Christopher Marlow's Doctor Faustus," Ronkyu, 25  (1989). (in Japanese)

8 "Faith in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicle of Narnia," Tinker Bell, 34 (1989). (in Japanese)

9 "Unnatural Nature: The Chaotic World in King Lear," Ronkyu, 28 (1990). (in Japanese)

10 "The Problem of Evil in C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet--C. S. Lewis's SF Trilogy 1," Ronkyu,30 (1989). (in Japanese)

11"Religious development in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets," in Collected Essays contributed to Junichiro Sako (Chobunsha, 1990).

12"Paradise Lost reconsidered--Man's Fall in contrast to Satan's Fall," The Review of Studies in Christianity and Literature, vol. 7.  (The Japanese Society for Literature and Religion,1990). (in Japanese)

13 "Scepticism in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia," Tinker Bell 35 (1990). (in Japanese)

14 "The Problem of Evil and Pain in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia," The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanity, Nishogakusha Univ. 46 (1991). (in Japanese)

15 "C. S. Lewis's Theory of Imagination in the light of Romanticism," The Bulletin of Nishogakusha Univ. 34(1991). (in Japanese)

16 "The Problem of Evil in Perelandra--C. S. Lewis's SF Trilogy 2," Ronkyu, 32 (1991). (in Japanese)

17 "People from Purgatory: On C. S. Lewis's The Great Divorce." The Bulletin of Nishogakusha Univ. 35 (1992).

18 "That Hideous Strength--C. S. Lewis's SF Trilogy 3,"Ronkyu, 35 (1992).  (in Japanese)

19 "C. S. Lewis and Liberal Christianity," International Politics and Economics, Commemorative Edition, Nishogakusha Univ. (1992).

20 "Criticisms on C. S. Lewis's Christian Apologetics and Lewis's style of Rhetoric," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 1, Nishogakusha Univ. (1993).

21 "C. S. Lewis's World of Imagination--A Way to Participation in Reality," in Shikaku to Shokkaku: Viewpoints and the Senses, ed Kazue Hiromoto in contribution to Prof. Hisao Kodama in commemoration of his retirement (1994). (in Japanese)

22 "The Work of Imagination as a Faculty of Perception and Communication: Metaphor, Allegory, Myth and Symbolism," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 2, Nishogakusha Univ. (1994). (in Japanese)

23 "C. S. Lewis's the Chronicles of Narnia and J. R. R. Tolkin's The Lord of the Rings," The Bulletin of Gakushuin Women's Junior College, No. 32 (1994). (in Japanese)

24 Heaven and Reality: C .S. Lewis's Approach to the Supernatural Reality (Shinkyo Shuppan, 1995). (in Japanese)

25 "On C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces: Attainment of Reality," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 3 , Nishogakusha Univ. (1995). 

26 "On C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: its form and content" The Bulletin of Gakushuin Women's Junior College, No. 33 (1995). (in Japanese)

27 "C. S. Lewis's Approach to the Supernatural Reality(I)," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 4 , Nishogakusha Univ. (1996).

28 "C. S. Lewis and Liberal Christianity" CSL:  The Bulletin of The New York C. S. Lewis Society Vol. 27, No. 5-6, Whole No. 317-318 (March-April 1996).

29 "On C. S. Lewis's Lectures," The Review of Studies in Christianity and Literature, vol.13. (The Japanese Society for Literature and Religion, 1996). (in Japanese)

30"A Doctrine of Love hidden in The Chronicles of Narnia," Fukuin to Sekai,Shinkyo Shuppan  (June,1996). (in Japanese)

31 Translation of William Barclay, Prayers for Help and Healing (Shinkyo Shuppan, 1997). 

32"Shusaku Endo's Figure of Christ as a Maternal God," Fukuin to Sekai,Shinkyo Shuppan  (November,1996). (in Japanese)

33 "C. S. Lewis's Approach to the Supernatural Reality(II)", Essays in International Politics and Economics, 5 , Nishogakusha Univ. (1997).

34 "C. S. Lewis's Science-fiction Trilogy: The Battle between Good and Evil" International Politics and Economics, 2, Nishogakusha Univ. (1996).

35 "Shusaku Endo's Healing God," Fukuin to Sekai, Shinkyo Shuppan (September, 1997). (in Japanese)  

36 "On C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: a study of its characters' relation to the Creator," International Politics and Economics, 3, Nishogakusha Univ. (1997).

37"The Appeal of C. S. Lewis beyond the Christendom--Toward the Twenty-first Century," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 6 , Nishogakusha Univ. (1998).

38Japanese translation of C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, IShinkyo Shuppan, 1998.

39Japanese translation of C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, IIShinkyo Shuppan,1998.

40. "C.S. Lewis's Literary Theory" International Politics and Economics, 4, Nishogakusha Univ. (1998).

41 "Doubting the Scepticism; Marriage of Science and Faith" Essays in International Politics and Economics, 6, Nishogakusha Univ. (1998). (in Japanese)

42.Japanese translation of John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate (Co-translator, Professor  Hiromasa Mase at Keio Univ.)Tamagawa Univ. Press,1999

43"Jewish View of the Holocaust," Fukuin to Sekai, Shinkyo Shuppan, (August, 1999). (in Japanese)

44"Jewish Responses to the Holocaust" International Politics and Economics, 5, Nishogakusha Univ. (1999).

45Japanese translation of Sister Wendy’s Book of Meditations Shinkyo Shuppan,1999

46"Science and Teology," Fukuin to Sekai, Shinkyo Shuppan, (Decembert, 1999). (in Japanese)

47 The Imaginative World of C.S. Lewis (University Press of America, 2000).

48 "T. S. Eliot’s Plays―In Search of Self-identity and Toward Reconciliation with the Reality," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 8, Nishogakusha Univ. (2000).

49 Japanese translation of John Polkinghorne, One World (Tamagawa Univ. Press, 2000)

50 "Auschwitz Survival Writers’ Deaths and Messages beyond Despair―What their Lives and Suicides Tell Us," International Politics and Economics, 6, Nishogakusha Univ. (2000). (in Japanese)

51 Japanese Translation of Helena Wilkinson, Beyond Chaotic Eating (Kagawa Nutrition Univ., 2000).

51 "Encountering the Problem of Evil―An Essay on Theodicy and Literature Concerning Evil," Essays in International Politics and Economics, 9, Nishogakusha Univ. (2001).

52 "From The Waste Land to Four Quartets―T.S. Eliot’s Reconciliation with Time andFutility," The Bulletin of Nishogakusha Univ. 44 (2001).

53 "Shusaku Endo’s Maternal God―From Conflict between Western Christianity and Japanese Religious View to Reconciliation in Religious Pluralism," Journal of The Oriental Research Institute, 31, Nishogakusha Univ. (2001)

54 “Problem of Evil in C.S. Lewis―His apologetics and novels” Essays in International Politics and Economics, 9, Nishogakusha Univ. (2002).

46 “An Essay on Book of Job” Essays in commemoration of 125th Anniversary of Nishogakusha University (2002)

47 “Yahwist’s God, the Old Testament’s first concept of God “International Politics and Economics, 6, Nishogakusha Univ. (2002).

 

 

                                  

 

                            Oral Presentations

 

1 "The Problem of Evil and Pain in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia," (Japan English Juvenile  Literature Society,1989).

2 "Evil in C. S. Lewis's Perelandra," (Japan C. S. Lewis Society, 1989).

3 "C. S. Lewis's Theory of Imagination in the Light of Romanticism," (Japan Christian Literature Society, 1990).

4 "C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia--The Doors to Aslan's Country," (Japan English Juvenile Literature Society, 1990).

5 "C.S.Lewis's The Screwtape Letters ," (Japan Christian  Literature Society, 1990). 

6 "Evil in C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, " (Japan C. S. Lewis Society, Symposium presentation, October 28, 1995).

7 "C.S. Lewis's Apologetics," (Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society, January 28, 1998).

8"From The Waste Land to Four Quartets―T.S. Eliot’s Reconciliation with Time and Futility," (Japan T.S. Eliot Society, 2000)