Bachelor of Arts in Theology

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    The Role Of Sacred Music In Evangelisation; A Case Of Nairobi Pentecostal Church – Langata
    (Tangaza University College, 2003) Muriithi, Paul Gitonga
    Music has become a culture that has been adopted by the entire human race. It is common in all areas of our life as human beings. For some people they cannot stay for a day without listening to Music. Today some people have Music in their houses, in the vehicles, in the places of work and public places. This prevalent music culture has been a point of my reflection in my life. The Kind of music that one listens to differs from one individual to the other. My experience in Christian music has been so enriching to my spiritual life. God has given me a talent of singing and playing musical instruments. Generally I have a great interest in music. Religious Music has been a source of inspiration in many occasions of my life. I have experienced God's Graces through religious music. I have also witnessed and observed many people who have had the same experience like me. The idea of approaching music theogically came to mind and I thought it would be a springboard to realizing its importance in evangelisation. Therefore, I have felt the need to explore this noble art and come out with a theological reflection on sacred music and evangelisation.
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    Healing and Salvation as Paradigms for Evangelisation in the Acts of the Apostles
    (Tangaza University College, 2001-02) Kossi Badjalao Bassoma, Alexis
    A recent sojourn in Togo has led me to observe a mushrooming of local FM radio stations in the capital city Lome, most of them with the declared objective of spreading the Good News. City squares have become the stages for itinerant preachers in Lome, as one can also observe in the Nairobi Uhuru Park and other places in the Kenyan capital. A common characteristic of these preachings either in Lome or in Nairobi, is the stress on the healing miracles of Jesus. Most preachers claim to be 'anointed with the Holy Spirit' to perform similar healing miracles in Jesus' name for the benefit of their congregations. The faithful of these healing miracle-based denominations generally refer to themselves as the 'saved'. In the Catholic Church, churches are often filled to overflowing at the celebration of the so called 'healing mass.' This phenomenon, it seems to me, indicates a great concern people have for their health in our economically precarious societies, where health care and the cost of it are often beyond most people's reach. This has motivated me to research the relationship between faith and health and the salvation brought about by Jesus. These concerns about healing and health-related issues should be a field of Christian evangelisation as expressions of salvation in Jesus Christ. Any culture provides its people with a basis for understanding the meaning of human existence, interpersonal relationships and the relationship with the divine or God. It also provides the basis for understanding the rules for the transmission, promotion and ultimately the protection and conservation of life. Among the Nawdeba of northern Togo,' the cultural representations of the universe, the human being, the social institutions and religious practices appear to have been conceived and organized in order to receive, fulfil and conserve human life. The social and religious practices aim at dispelling dangers which directly or indirectly threaten human life and its fulfilment. Christianity, in order to be credible and relevant as Good News among the Nawdeba, must incarnate itself in the people's struggle for life against the forces of anti-life.' Sickness, "ill living and ill dying"3 are for the Nawdeba the most dreadful anti-life forces, and thus are the targets of the therapeutic systems which aim at restoring health, good-living and gooddying in view of the perseverance in life. Sickness, health and salvation are, therefore, culturally defined and understood.4 My research seeks an understanding of sickness, healing, health and salvation in Luke- Acts, in so far as the restoration of health through the name of Jesus and faith in this name have become an occasion for preaching repentance and forgiveness of sins in that name to a Jewish audience. I will engage in a socio-cultural and theological reinterpretation of Peter's speech on the healing of the lame beggar in Acts 3:12-26. The question of the relevance of this speech as Christian scripture for evangelisation in a non-Jewish Christian context, requires an understanding of these notions of healing/health and salvation in that particular culture. I want to examine its relevance in the cultural context of the Nawdeba of Northern Togo. I am aiming at proposing a basis for a theology of sickness, healing/health and salvation among the Nawdeba. I will be answering, among others, basic questions such as: What was the meaning of this healing miracle for both the apostles and the people of Jerusalem, their co-believers? Was it essential to have a healing miracle in order to announce Jesus as Messiah and saviour in Jerusalem? Must today's preachers of the Good News, in the socio-cultural contexts of the Nawdeba perform healing miracles, as a necessary means for the proclamation of the word of God as Good News? What relationships exist between sickness, healings/health and salvation, in Luke-Acts, on the one hand and among the Nawdeba, on the other hand? Must there necessarily be healings/health in order to attain salvation? My objective is to attain the meaning(s) of the speech, hence, I have chosen the thematic approach. My criteria for structuring the speech for the exegesis will be thematic. The exegesis will be an analysis or commentary of the content of the identified themes. The analysis or commentary seeks to attain the sense of a theme. The structural unit thus, is the semantic theme. A theme conveys among other features, the views and intentions, the motivations, beliefs, values of the speaker, and to some extent of the hearers, inasmuch as there is communication between the two. The work will be divided into three chapters. The first chapter places the speech in Acts with the definition, type and function of this literary genre in Ancient Historiography and in the acts of the Apostles. After this preliminary step, comes the exegesis of the speech. The second chapter is a reflection on the meaning of salvation and its relationship to healing in Luke-Acts and in the cultural setting of the Nawdeba. The third or last chapter lays the foundations for the preaching of the mystery of Jesus in terms of healing and salvation among the Nawdeba.
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    Tourism and Mission With Particular Reference to Kenya
    (Tangaza University College, 1998-02) Sambua, Sosthenes Aloyce
    On March 25, 1980, the SCC issued a document entitled "Norms Jim the cooperation among the local Churches and Jim better distribution of the clergy". In No.1 the document emphasises that the aim of cooperation is to fulfill the mandate of Christ: "Go to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature" iMK 15:15). This is the task for the whole Church; bishops, priests, Religious, clergy and laity. Attention is drawn to the local Churches and the need to re-structure so as to meet the challenges of the 'signs of the times'. This is because there are new phenomena that require specialised attention. Some of these are: Trans-migration into industrial regions, Urbanisation and Tourism' A lot of reflection and work has been done on migration and urbanisation already, but hardly has tourism been reflected upon. It is the task of theologians to articulate the areas in tourism that require Church and/or missionary attention. The aim of this paper is to contribute, though modestly, to that articulation by showing that modern tourism is economically very beneficial to many countries and individuals. At the same time tourism cannot be confined to private enterprise. Our argument is that tourism is an international as opposed to personal enterprise, involving multi-nationals hence it is related to international political system and economic order which can be a strong force of exploitation, oppression and as a consequence very destructive to traditional economic, social and cultural systems, hence destruction of families and human dignity. However, we will not treat the question of origin and development of tourism, neither will we talk about what is called 'theological fourism"2. Instead we will look at how modern tourism affects individuals, communities and countries and see the challenges it offers to Christian mission. A further question may be asked as to what has tourism to do with Christian? Or mission? Our first answer is the words of Cardinal Lavigerie: "Every human cause is a missionary cause". We may add that every missionary cause is a Christians business. In other words, whatever affects human life and dignity affects missionaries and Christians at large. Tourism does exactly that. In his encyclical Redemptoris Mission, Pope John Paul II affirmed strongly the validity of the missionary activity of the Church today. It is the primary service the Church can offer to humanity. He continues: "But what moves me even more strongly to proclaim the urgency of tnissionary evangelisation is the fact that it is the primary service which the Church can render to every individual and to all humanity in the modem world"(RM 2c). The second answer is that Christianity is a sustained effort to reflect and discover the situations affecting individuals, scrutinise these with the word of God and come up with ways of liberating them. This is what we attempt to do in this paper. The first part then discusses definitions, concepts, trends in tourism and its effects. The second part looks at the challenge posed to mission by the effects of tourism and how tourism can be used for evangelisation, while the third part outlines some structures and spirituality for missionary tourism. My main source of information and material is CONTOURS'.