4. THE BEGINNINGS OF HOLINESS TEACHINGS IN JAPAN
[Esther Maxton]
Holiness teachings in Japan came in the late 19th century with the arrival of a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary Barclay Buxton from the United Kingdom. Christianity had arrived at the shores of Japan three centuries earlier, in the mid 16th century, with a Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Soon Christianity flourished, however, in the early 17th century, the Tokugawa government forbid Christianity fearing foreign interference in Japanese politics through Japanese Christians…
