Peter G. Epps is a passionate devotee of the liberal arts. He currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and as the Coordinator of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His interest in Religion & Literature Studies and 19th-Century British Poetry has led him to study figures on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific, including H. P. Lovecraft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Shūsaku Endō.

Interpret Carefully: Balancing Caution and Hope in Responding to Shusaku Endo’s Novel Silence

If there is a faithful interpretation of Endo’s Silence, it comes because the martyrdoms of the Japanese Christians and Garrpe may successfully testify against the self-justifications Rodrigues offers for his apostasy.