Bachelor of Arts in Theology

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    Healing of Women Who Have Had an Abortion
    (Tangaza University College, 2002) Dionis Massawe, Andrew
    The study will concentrate on the healing and counseling women who have had an abortion. Our study therefore deals with issues such as: What is the understanding of Abortion? Which issues lead to abortion? What are consequences? And, entirely what steps can be taken to reconcile and heal the woman who has had an abortion? Is there any African or Christian approach to be used in the healing? Again, we shall show where the study was carried out, and when the researcher started collecting data and methodology employed. This work remains entirely in the limits and the requirements set in the academic yearbook of Tangaza College. The college requires the final written project to have ten to twelve thousand words of the text (excluding preface, table of contents, bibliography etc.). This work therefore, considerably suffices to this requirement. The work consists of five chapters: Chapter One: General Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review Chapter Three: Research Methodology Chapter Four: Research Findings; the results, discussions and presentations of the interpretations. Chapter Five: Recommendations, Pastoral suggestions and conclusions. During the data collection, the researcher was faced with many difficulties. I will mention just a few. First, the major problem was that the respondents did not keep the
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    Homosexuality A Pastoral Issue: A Mission Perspective.
    (Tangaza University College, 2001-02) Emokhare, Christopher
    The only sexual orientation accepted by society with absolutely little or no question at all is that between people of the opposite sex- man and woman. Any other sexual bearing tending to drift from the accepted sexual relation is highly abhorred and regarded with distaste by the society. This needs not to be over stressed because there are countries that have accepted and even legalised sexual relationships between people of the same sex- homosexuals. In the United States of America, Denmark and the Netherlands, for examples, marriages between same sex is widely practised and allowed. Until recently in Africa, public comments on homosexuality have been fairly infrequent. There exists a culture of silence within which the questions of sexuality - of any kind - are not often debated openly and frankly. One can argue that this is partly because of the lacuna created when old mores are no longer upheld, especially in communities going through urbanisation. In the old days, sex education was transmitted to the young during initiation rituals, but where traditions are breaking down this no longer works.
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    African Psycho-Religious Understanding of `Ratum ET Consummatum' Versus Catholic Church's Teaching
    (Tangaza University College, 2001-02) Priscus, Michael Massawe
    On Friday 2ld Jan. 2000, the Holy Father received the prelate Auditors, Officials and Advocates of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota for the solemn opening of the judicial year. Addressing the Jurists in the Sala Clementina of the Apostolic Palace, the Pope spoke of the possible juridical effect of the current divorce mentality on the marital consent and reiterated the church's constant teaching that ratified and consummated marriage cannot be dissolved by any human power not even the Roman pontiff. The Holy Father insisted on the church's finidamental duty to reaffirm strongly as the Synod Fathers did, the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage (FC.20) in order to dispel the shadow that seems to be cast over the value of the indissolubility of the conjugal bond by certain opinions stemming from theological and canonical research (L'osservatore Romano, 26th Jan. 2000). Looking at our African situation whereby the marriage issue is one of the major challenges in the pastoral work in the parishes and this declaration of the Holy Father to all Christians, I started to ponder about our church here in Africa where there is a lot of an accentuate increase of marriage dissolution_ Reading in the Newspapers, maga7ines and articles we find a lot of marriages broken e.g. separation of ratified and consummated marriage, divorce, cohabitation and the like. Reflecting on what might be the causal factor, I realized that there is misunderstanding between our African culture and traditional understanding of marriage with that of Catholic Church's teaching. For instance, African culture, which allows marriage separation, polygamy etc., differs with the church's teaching on indissolubility and monogamy of marriage. It is in line with this, we made an assumption that African psycho-religious understanding of ratum et consummatum versus catholic church's teaching is a pastoral issue today which requires an immediate solution for the betterment of African Christian people. It is from this assumption that we were prompted to carry out this research work for the justification that African psycho-religious understanding of ratum et consummatum versus catholic church's teaching is a pastoral issue today. The results, discussions carried out are placed in this research work. All findings placed in this research work are emanating from the responses of the respondents from Arusha Archdiocese in Tanzania. The data were discussed and analyzed in which the recommendations and practical pastoral suggestions for the future research were developed.
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    Liturgical Inculturation Of The Mass among the Iteso People
    (Tangaza University College, 1998-02-16) Ichuloi, Anthony
    The study of this subject is based on the information gathered from knowledgeable people involved in pastoral work: priests, catechists, religious sisters, and the traditional old men and women. This broad collection is geared to a comprehensive understanding of worship and inculturation of the Mass as it will be wholistically and logically presented in this essay. The information was gathered within a period of four months. The great part of it is from oral sources which will actually give credibility and solid ground to my work. This is basically because much is talked and written about inculturation in the general understanding of its concept, while specifically very little is done about inculturation of the Mass. To go beyond that, nothing is said about inculturation of the Mass among the Iteso people. This is the reason why chapter four of this paper will entirely embrace oral findings. I canied out the interview with a number of informants. The research was done separately with each informant with the focal idea of finding correct information when all different materials gathered were synthesized. The informants co-operated well by answering the questions I asked each of them. They showed incredible enthusiasm since they openly admitted that the liturgy today does not appeal to most of the Iteso faithful who seem to live double lives- one traditional and the other Christian. The language I used in the research was the local language called Ateso not excluding English and Kiswahili. The general survey of this essay therefore, will include clarification on the terminology used, the views and principles of inculturation of the Mass, the Iteso understanding of sacrifice and the various traditional sacrificial prayers; the Iteso symbols are elaborately used and discussed in an implicit approach. The teaching of the Church, including Scripture and Magisterial statements are explicitly discussed too. Finally practical pastoral recommendations are suggested and feature throughout the essay, finding their ftilfilment in the hope inculturation of the Mass will give to the local Iteso faithful.
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    Drug Abuse among the Youth
    (Tangaza University College, 1998-02) Mulenga, Clement
    This Long Essay was prompted by one main consideration; namely, that the non-medical use of drugs is rampant among the Kenyan youth. This has affected not only the youth themselves, but also their families and society at large. In other words, what the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been saying for over three decades about trends in the world as a whole is seen to be increasing in the specific case of Kenya. This problem has also been re-echoed persistently by the Kenyan mass media. Our concern was that the precise character and magnitude of the drug problem among Kenyan youth has yet to be adequately documented and addressed. We directed our research study precisely to our youth in some Don Bosco schools and youth centres. This research study, whose results are recorded here, will render a great help to us in order to evaluate the prevalence of drug abuse among our Don Bosco youth. The findings reported here are based on the responses obtained from a randomly selected sample of Nairobi City and Embu town One of our most significant findings is that according to their frequencies, the four most abused drugs are alcohol (57), khat (30), cannabis (12) and opium/heroin (10). Another outstanding element is that out of the total percentage of respondents (100%), 43.8% were drug abusers. On the basis of these and other findings, we conclude that any campaign against drug abuse in Nairobi City and Embu town must focus primarily on alcohol, khat, cannabis and opium/heroin. Based on the foregoing and other inferences, we conclude that any campaign launched in Nairobi and Embu against the drug menace should address their availability and accessibility. The youth, who are the most vulnerable sector of the Kenyan population, must be seriously sensitised. This should be done through the mass media, seminars, workshops, counselling and by creating youth activities. Let us take note that one must be extremely careful about how one handles a media campaign against drugs to avoid arousing curiosity among the youth. However, this risk is surpassed by the likely benefits of such a campaign. A focus on availability of the drugs of abuse would appear more promising.