Abstract
Endō Shūsaku and Rowan Williams offer us crucial insights into the meaning of being truly human by paying special attention to the vulnerability and fallibility of human existence. They show that everyday human experience, albeit fragmented and ambiguous, can be conceived as windows through which God’s light shines upon the dark chamber of our self-centred ego. For Endō, God’s grace is not sought apart from the chores of ordinary life, but with and through the traces engraved in the web of relationships and contingencies in this material world. Williams’ kenotic ontology of social exchange provides us with a wider theological background in which our experience of contingencies in the material world can be understood as God’s gift. Their rich reflections do indeed show us a way to live as corporeal creatures in the world of agony, ambiguity and uncertainty.
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