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Essentially the particular mode of social protest we will ex­ mine in these few pages did not formally get underway until August, 1927. It will be our argument, however, that the roots of the Kingdom of God Movement, so called, lie somewhat deeper in the Japanese past. Its ultimate source of origin we find in the febrile mind of its principal author, Kagawa Tovohiko, social reformer, labor leader, Christian evangelist, and uto­ pian prophet of a better age. Over the course of its development the movement assumed two forms: on the one hand, it consti­ tuted a nationwide gospel crusade to enroll new members in the Protestant Christian cause; on the other hand, it covertly served as the vehicle for the realization of Kagawa Toyohiko,s private utopian mission to bring into fruition the Kingdom of God on earth. Thus, in the course of our discussion below we must distinguish between the private vision of the movement’s archi­ tect and leader, Kagawa, and the pragmatic, normative forms it was necessary for the cause to assume in order to prove realizable in acion. With this distinction in mind we will see that during the course of its development the Kingdom of God Movement evolved

Thy Kingdom Come on Earth: Some Reflections on the Social Gospel Movement in Japan