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Item Hermeneutics of Lk. 3:7-18 On the Kalenjin People of Kenya With Special Reference To Justice Today.(Tangaza University College, 2003) K1pkorir, K1rlty CharlesThe Kalenjin in Kenya are of nomadic origin. Having migrated in the early 9th bentury from the present-day Sudan, where the desert life was so harsh to them, their lifestyle still to date hinges on the traditions founded on these harsh conditions. In the desert, an individual who is separated from histher group must be able to count without question on the hospitality of the group through which he/she passes or he/she joins. Anyone may have need of this help and therefore everyone must give it; this is the basis of the Law of Hospitality and Asylum. The history of the Kalenjin people is akin to the one of the people of Israel whose ancestors lived as Nomads. Because of their closely-knit society, the message of John the Baptist -the message of justice- is very central to their lives for it touches their identity.Item The Hermeneutics of the Trinitarian Koinonia as a Fundamental Component of Contemporary Christian Praxis(Tangaza University College, 2016) Oswald, NkyanungiThis paper is a research aimed at proving my major thesis that the Trinitarian koinonia is an essential and indispensable element of contemporary Christian praxis. In trying to prove my thesis I will draw from Augustine’s De Trinitate whose prominent statement, “If you see charity, you see the Trinity” 1 will be important in delving into the mystery of the Trinity and its relationship with contemporary Christian living. It is on this foundation that Pope Benedict XVI helps us to see the call of living in love through koinonia as having its foundation in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. 2 The fact of living together in the spirit of fellowship by sharing what we have as humanity is a mirror of the Trinity made alive in us. Karl Rahner’s definition of person brings out this relational character of man more clearly. He says: “To be a person is to possess oneself as a subject in conscious, free relation to reality as a whole and its infinite ground and source, God.” 3 In other words, to be person is to be relational. Rahner further explains that “the Greek New Testament term κοινωνία (communion), connotes fellowship in faith…it is the union of a number of personal beings who are joined in society by certain relationships, personal communication, juridical bonds, proximate in time and space or transcendental relations”. 4 It is therefore true that whenever human beings eliminate their capacity to relate with God and neighbor, they are deemed to experience a crisis of alienation as seen in the world today. Hence, the Trinity can be defined as “the name of the fundamental mystery of Christianity, that of the one Nature and the three Persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) in God….” 5 Given this situation therefore, this thesis seeks to explore how the problem of selfishness has contributed to human misery and show the necessity of employing new hermeneutics that will improve the understanding of the Trinitarian fellowship as paramount in restoring human fulfillment in contemporary times. For this life of fellowship with one another springs from the Trinity and finds its strength in God like the way a tree survives from its roots that are responsible for supplying it with water, which is necessary for its life.