Numer 17 (2) 2015
Redaktorzy: Fr. John Gibson, OCD, Dr. Marcel Mukadi, SDS
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Editorial
5 – 10
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Philip A. Ogbonna
The 21st Century Scandal of Faith and the Kierkegaardian Resonance
11 – 28
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For Kierkegaard, scandalization is both the constant presence and the constant reminder of an unsettling objective incertitude where faith, nevertheless, triumphs. But again, this faith always contains an echo of the scandal that one has traversed. From Kierkegaard’s point of view, the impending possibility of being scandalised is the crucial junction where one can go in either of two directions. At this junction, we may either shy away from the scandalization or we may turn to faith; but we never reach faith except through the dilemma of scandalization.

Kierkegaard resolves the dilemma in what he calls renewal. The task of renewal is to save and redeem temporality. The very meaning of temporality is essentially at stake: temporality needs a renewal. The dialectic here is that what is renewed has already been, for otherwise, it would not be a renewal; but renewal changes the very fact that it has once been into something quite new and other. Now, when the Greeks (Plato) say that all knowledge is recollection, they are saying that the whole of life which now is has also been before. When it is said that life is renewal, the meaning is that the life which once had being, now enters into a new fullness that was not there before.


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Jordan University College,Tanzania
Arockia Dhas Calisthu
Language Resources: Concreteness vs. Abstractness
29 – 58
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This study reviews the weaknesses that may inhere in an infrastructure of concrete resources in underdeveloped societies that consequently impose distress on the abstract thinking that ought to function as a significant factor for the development of a wellestablished society.1 Because of its potential for an enormous scope of knowledge that coheres with priorities wisely set and managed and a reservoir of energy that sustains reasoning into a far-off future, the ability to think abstractly can motivate all concerned towards an optimistic development of society. But this ability requires access to concrete data banks. This ability for abstract thinking results from an integrated development of a body of knowledge that has accumulated through a cognitive process initiated by exposure to concrete data and sustained by insight and wisdom...


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Jordan University College,Tanzania
Bernard Witek
Gaining Honour vs. Gaining Riches (Prov 11:12-16)
59 – 68
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There is a choice between “to be” and “to have”. Avenues of publicity in contemporary culture strive to imprint on our thinking the notion that we need to have, to get, to gain something; at the same time they shy away from saying that we need to renounce something, to give something up, to suffer material loss for a higher motive, for a more noble purpose. The author of the present essay proposes a contextual analysis of a group of proverbs to be found in the biblical book by the same name in chapter 11, verses 12-16. These proverbs all end with a statement that declares that gaining honour and a good name present an antithesis to the unbridled drive to accumulate material things or riches (v. 16). Hence maintaining one’s honour and preserving a good name seem to be more worthy of the human being.


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Jordan University College,Tanzania
Patrick Mwania
The Enigma of the Semina Verbi in African Culture and Tradition: A Point of Departure for a Christian Theology of Salvation in Africa
69 – 96
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In his Encyclical Letter, Redemptoris Missio, John Paul II accentuates the need for dialogue between the Christian faith and non-Christian religions and religious movements. There he states that “through dialogue, the Church seeks to uncover the ‘seeds of the Word,’ a ‘ray of that Truth which enlightens all men’; these are found in individuals and in the religious traditions of mankind”...


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Spiritan House of Theology, Nairobi - Kenya
Marcel Mukadi
Liturgy: God’s Own Work
97 – 118
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What are we doing when we “do” theology? Saint Anselm answers: Fides quaerens intellectum. Faith seeks understanding. He does not say, Intellectus quaerens fidem. He does not opine that understanding precedes faith. Saint Augustine makes the lucid remark: Intellege ut Credas; Crede ut Intellegas. “Understand in order that you may believe; believe in order that you may understand”...


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Jordan University College,Tanzania
Elfrida Ijukane
The Patent Protection Regime as an Impediment to Protecting Traditional Knowledge
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This paper presents the impediments posed by the patent protection regime against protecting traditional knowledge. It argues that the failure of traditional knowledge-based medicine to meet the requirements of patentability subject it to non-protection. The denial of protection opens the gate for bio-piracy by third parties who steal the traditional knowledge and readily utilize it without any intention of giving fair and adequate compensation or equal benefits to the traditional knowledge holders. The paper suggests an effective mechanism to protect traditional knowledge and thus enable traditional knowledge holders to receive just treatment in terms of compensation or equal benefits from those who utilize the knowledge they have stolen.


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Jordan University College,Tanzania
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