The Imagery of the Shepherd in the New Testament and its Challenge to the Pastors: With Reference to Kampala Archdiocese

Lugoidobi, Boniface (1997) The Imagery of the Shepherd in the New Testament and its Challenge to the Pastors: With Reference to Kampala Archdiocese. Licentiate thesis, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

[img] PDF (The Imagery of the Shepherd in the New Testament and Its Challenge to the Pastors: With Reference to Kampala Archdiocese)
2015_06_28.pdf - Accepted Version
Restricted to Repository staff only

Download (7MB) | Request a copy

Abstract

To investigate, discover and clarify the meaning of the shepherd imagery in the New Testament putting more emphasis on the text of John 10:1-21. The Old Testament and extra biblical parallel texts used the imagery of shepherd before the New Testament. In the Old Testament and the New Testament the imagery is used in more or less the same way. For that reason I intend to consider briefly how the Old Testament and extra.biblical parallel literature used that image. The aim for this will be to give an historical background on the New Testament imagery of shepherd. Therefore, it is not my intention to treat extensively the imagery of the Shepherd as it is used in the whole Bible. The qualities of a good shepherd will be painted out and they will be used to show how the imagery can be applied to the pastors of the church today. In the application I will point out how the good qualities of the good shepherd can be utilized in the life and ministry of a priest. There is a great tendency to think that the elements which are used to express the functions of the shepherd and his intimate relationship with his sheep have been exaggerated for the sake of the message. Such idea leads to the conclusion that those elements expressed in the New Testament by the use of the shepherd imagery, have nothing to do with what the shepherds experienced in Jesus' time. Such misinterpretation underestimates the use of the shepherd imagery in the New Testament and it waters down the theological richness expressed by the same imagery. In this study, we presuppose that when the shepherd imagery is given a proper interpretation, one cannot fail to appreciate the theological richness it holds. After such achievement, there is no way, one can fail to acknowledge the challenges the imagery puts forward to the Christians especially the pastors of the church.

Item Type: Thesis (Licentiate)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Kampala archdiocese, shepherd in the New Testament, Pastoral challenges
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BS The Bible
Divisions: Africana
Afro-Christiana
Depositing User: Mr Christopher Mapunda
Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2015 11:19
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2018 13:55
URI: http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/234

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item