Evangelization and Politics The Ministry of the Church In Burkina Faso

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dc.contributor.authorPaul Guibila, Jean
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-26T11:19:44Z
dc.date.available2019-02-26T11:19:44Z
dc.date.issued2001-02
dc.description.abstractOne of the most outstanding pastoral priorities taken by the AMECEA bishops has been the one of the Small Christian Communities. This pastoral programme has had as a primary intention to shape and foster a new way of being Church in Eastern Africa: A Church more African in its participation and organization, and more inserted and participative in its social reality. To achieve this, AMECEA has called all the forces and pastoral agents to actively participate in this urgent and noble task. But, A mixture of results and reactions have accompanied the beginning and the subsequent development the SCCs, and the same results and reactions continue up to nowadays. Nearly, 30 years have passed since the introduction of this pastoral programme, and we can easily realise that there is still a long way to go before the SCCs achieve what is expected from them. Furthermore, the SCCs currently face old and new challenges present in the African society. It is in this context that the SCCs are called and challenged- more than ever to be and foster what they are: witnesses of the God of life, seeds of Liberation and sodal actors that aim at the transformation of society. This long essay is an attempt to rediscover and stress the role of the SCCs as social actors in the transformation of the African society. A task that is urgently needed due to the actual condition and reality of the continent. I have divided this paper in three sections, trying to apply the pastoral methodology: SEE, JUDGE and ACT. In the first chapter (SEE), I have pointed out the historical factors for the beginning and development of the SCCs, and the reluctance in implementing the SCCs' social dimension in Eastern Africa. In the second chapter (JUDGE), I have pointed out the biblical and theological foundations of the SCCs as social actors. Here, I have worked on the themes of the covenant and Amos' prophetic ministry and social claim, as far as the 0. T concerns, while the theme of the Johannine community has been worked out in relation to the N. T . In the last two points of this chapter, I have made a explicit reference to the SCCs in Liberation Theology and in the African Synod. In the last chapter (ACT), I have presented some suggestions on how to stress the role of the SCCs as social actors, pointing out four dimensions that must be always considered and related in the SCCs' life and praxis. In doing so, the SCCs shall achieve an effective involvement in the transformation of their social reality.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/659
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectEvangelizationen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjectChurchen_US
dc.subjectSmall Christian Communitiesen_US
dc.subjectSocialen_US
dc.titleEvangelization and Politics The Ministry of the Church In Burkina Fasoen_US
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