The call to be a health care worker was, is, and will continue to be a special vocation. Maintaining good health, therefore, becomes a challenge especially to the health care worker who works as a Christian missionary, whose primary assignment is to enhance healing. It is a challenge of professionalism, vocation, and mission - a challenge to holistic healing. This book examines the challenges that face Christian health care workers who are serving a religious mission in Nigeria. (Series: African Theology / Afrikanische Theologie / Theologie Africaine - Vol. 2)

The truth of the Christian message must be interpreted in such a way that Christ as the Incarnate Word - 'truly God and truly Man' - could become part of the people's way of life. It is in such interpretation that African Christians in their faith encounter and life experiences might be able to perceive the reality of Christ-events and find a true home with themselves and with their God. Chidubem Nwaogaidu is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka, Nigeria. He holds Doctorate Degrees both in Sociology (Muenster) and in Dogmatic Theology (Eichstaett). (Series: African Theology /...