The Imperative of Self-Reliance for the Churches in Africa: A Study in Christian Social Ethics

ISBN-13: 9783631557778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 354 str.

Uchechukwu Obodoechina

Opis

Poverty and dependence constitute the two sides of the same coin. Both can be seen as a result of the terrors of nature or the horrors of history. They are obstacles to maturity and personal responsibility; they rob their victims of their sense of inner worth and dignity. And they instill in them the unhealthy feelings of inferiority and inner worthlessness that lead to greater poverty of the mind and powerlessness. This book is a study in Christian social ethics within the context of communio ecclesiology. It deals with the entrenched systems of domination that create and maintain material poverty and systemic dependence on the part of the Churches in Africa. The image of the umbilical cord depicts this form of life-or-death dependence on external structures and resources. Having identified the terrors of nature and the horrors of history responsible for the African predicaments that result in acute poverty and shameless dependence, this study sees the principles of the social order in their diverse understandings as the criteria capable of effectively blazing the trail of Self-reliance for the Churches in Africa."

Spis treści

Contents : Autonomy - Solidarity - Subsidiarity - Freedom - Individual Initiative - Justice - Common Good - Right and Responsibility - Development - Slavery - Colonialism - Inculturation - Resources - Finances - Communion - Sustainability - Corruption - Evangelisation - Good Governance.

O autorze

The Author: Uchechukwu Obodoechina was born in 1963 in Lejja - Nsukka, Enugu State (Nigeria). He studied Philosophy at Bigard Memorial Seminary Ikot Ekpene from 1982 to 1986, and Theology at Bigard Memorial Seminary Enugu from 1987 to 1991, and was ordained a catholic priest for the Diocese for Nsukka in 1991. He studied Catholic Social Teaching at the University of Bonn and at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Augustin from 1999 to 2002, and Social Ethics at the Ruhr University Bochum from 2002 to 2005.