Konkokyo's central teaching holds that Tenchi Kane no Kami and human beings depend on each other: the deity wishes to help and save people but, in the founder Kawate Bunjiro's own recorded words, "can do so only through other people," while people in turn cannot exist without the deity. Toritsugi, the minister's mediated prayer, is the practice built to carry that mutual reliance between the two, rather than treating divine help as something granted from a distance. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Historical OriginSourced to the subject's own accountThe teaching grew out of Kawate Bunjiro's own disillusionment with the directional and calendrical taboos of folk divination, which he had followed carefully as a farmer only to see his livestock sicken and his family fall ill regardless. That crisis led to his 1859 turn toward a deity he came to call Tenchi Kane no Kami, addressed directly rather than propitiated through almanac rules, which is the origin of the mutual, unmediated relationship the doctrine describes. 1 Status
Standing as a Comparative CategorySourced to the subject's own accountA standard analytic category in the study of religion 1 Doctrinal category (class)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
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1. Konkokyo (Wikipedia)
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