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Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University Volume 40
published_at 1991-01

Study of Frobel's Gifts (No12) : Philosophy of his religion

Frobelの恩物研究 (第12報) : 「宗教観」について
Shoji Yasuhiro
Descriptions
For a long time Frobel's gifts had been explained at Japan, but our country is based on Buddhism. As a result of the different philosophy of religion, Frobel's gifts that God honor humanbeings with an God message was designated as 「賜物shibutu」 that was based on Buddhism. Christian God is not a matter of general knowledge, furthermore the concept of God who is unific one is subject to great variation according to the interpretation. The above-mentioned grounds, to mention Frobel's God-conception had tactfully eluded the force of an argument. However there was a try to give an explanation of Chiristian God in partial monographs, I regret to say that was not Frobel's God, but general Chiristian God. In a word there are 2 sects in the Chiristian religion, they are called the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant Church. Generally it is that chiristian religionmeans the Roman Catholic sect in Japan. But our Frobel is believer in an adherent of Protestant sect. So there is some difference between Roman Catholic and Protestant. This treatise look at his gift's philosophy of religion again in Protestant Christian background. I atempt 3 viewpoints, interpretation of Peccatum originale, method of expression in faith, differences of principle and system.