Authentic Witness in Religious Life

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dc.contributor.authorNwankwo, Justine Ndidi
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-06T07:41:23Z
dc.date.available2018-11-06T07:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2005-04
dc.description.abstractIt is a common saying that the people of today are in search of witnesses rather than teachers, and if teachers are sought, they are not only teachers but witnesses too. Hence, in the midst of men and women of this generation, so immersed in the absolute, we are called be witnesses, not just witnesses but authentic witnesses, witnesses to the invisible in a secularized society, which too often excludes every transcendental Dimension. We must be constant reminders of that destiny, which takes place in time but has eternity as its goal; witnessing by our lives the necessary direction of our existential course. Our vocation as religious which places us as chosen forerunners of humankind must be able to find the model and anticipation of that which it is also called to be in spite of its burdens and its compromises. For an effective and eloquent movement to be an authentic Witness, it is good to search and know what it means and entails to be one The purpose of this work is to describe some of these aspects. This long essay comprises of three chapters. Chapter one deals with the meaning of authentic witness. It covers the understanding of authentic witness in the Old Testament as walking with God, keeping the Law, and doing God's will. Then in the New Testament it treates authentic under Jesus and ST. Paul and also as living the Gospel values. The chapter also coveres the understanding of authentic witness in traditional Africa as a matured person with integrity and living the cultural values. All these subheadings reflect on the meaning of authentic witness as a person with integrity of life, who practices justice, honesty, goodness, uprightness etc. Chapter two deals with the meaning of religious life in the light of authentic witness, as a call to holiness, a life of prayer, a life lived in community, a vowed life, bringing out how religious life can be a way of witnessing authentically and the major challenges facing religious life in the process of witnessing authentically. While chapter three describes how the lifestyle of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as an indigenous congregation has been striving to witness authentically to its congregational Charism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/351
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectReligious Lifeen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectOld Testament and Authentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness as Walking with Goden_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness as Keeping the Lawen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness as Doing God's Willen_US
dc.subjectNew Testament and Authentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectJesus and Authentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectPaul and Authentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness as Living the Gospel Valuesen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness in African Traditionen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Maturity and Authentic Witnessen_US
dc.subjectAuthentic Witness and African Cultureen_US
dc.subjectThe Meaning of Religious Lifeen_US
dc.subjectReligious Life as Consecrated Lifeen_US
dc.subjecteligious Life as a Call to Holinessen_US
dc.subjectReligious Life as Vowed Lifeen_US
dc.subjectReligious Life as a Life of Prayeren_US
dc.subjectReligious Life as a Life Lived in Communityen_US
dc.subjectThe Vow of Chastityen_US
dc.subjectThe Vow of Povertyen_US
dc.subjectThe Vow of Obedienceen_US
dc.subjectMajor Challenges Facing Religious Life Todayen_US
dc.titleAuthentic Witness in Religious Lifeen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Case Study of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart Of Jesusen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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