
Makuya Church
Sign in to savethumb|Makuya members visiting Israel '''''', based at the Tokyo Bible Seminary, is a new religious movement in Japan founded in 1948 by Ikurō Teshima. Its members' goal is to grasp the inner truth of "biblical religion", or the "love of the Holy Spirit" as Teshima puts it, and extol this love by embodying it and living accordingly.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- religious organization
- Official name
- 宗教法人キリスト聖書塾
- Religion
- Christianity
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Tokyo
- Official website
- www.makuya.org
- Image
- PikiWiki Israel 2283 Tourism in Israel מביקורי המקויה.jpg
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- date of incorporation
- 1961-00-00
- Commons category
- Makuya
- native label
- キリストの幕屋
- inception
- 1948-00-00
- member count
- 60000
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thumb|Makuya members visiting Israel '''''', based at the Tokyo Bible Seminary, is a new religious movement in Japan founded in 1948 by Ikurō Teshima. Its members' goal is to grasp the inner truth of "biblical religion", or the "love of the Holy Spirit" as Teshima puts it, and extol this love by embodying it and living accordingly.
"Makuya" is the Japanese equivalent of the Hebrew word משכן mishkan, which refers to the Tabernacle, the portable shrine wherein God spoke to humans in Exodus 29:42–43. The term captures the basic religious orientation of the Makuyas, who emphasize the significance of the personal encounter with the divine presence in everyday life. This experience, according to the group's theology, must not be substituted by creeds or a religious institution—hence, the idea of the "portable" shrine, the Tabernacle.
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