"The Evangelization, Catechumenate and On-going Formation System of Members of the Catholic Church in Nairobi Archdiocese"

Njoroge, Peter Kiarie (1999) "The Evangelization, Catechumenate and On-going Formation System of Members of the Catholic Church in Nairobi Archdiocese". Masters thesis, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

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Abstract

The title of this study is 'The Evangelisation, Catechumenate and Ongoing formation system of members of the Catholic Church in Nairobi Archdiocese'. The study specifically addressed one section of Nairobi Archdiocese the more homogenous rural section which coincides with the territory of the Southern Kikuyu people. The problem investigated by this study is, the impact and consistency of the system of Evangelization, Catechumenate and On-going formation used to convert individuals of the Southern Kikuyu people to become members of the Roman Catholic Church in the Nairobi Archdiocese between 1899 and 1999. Impact is defined as the action of one body coming forcibly into contact with another body. It also refers to the effect and influences resulting from the forcible contact of the bodies. The nature of the impact will depend on the nature of the bodies coming into forcible contact. Consistency in this study has been operationally defined as conformity with other or earlier attitudes and . practices. The problem investigated in this study has arisen from a specifically African Catholic Kikuyu situation, when Kikuyu Catholics reflect about what has happened to them over the last one hundred years and what is happening today. There are Catholic grandparents and they reflect on the phenomenon of the social bodies that have impacted on the Southern Kikuyu in the last one hundred years. The Catholic Church is only one such social body. There have been. Protestant churches and Islam. There has been imperial military conquest, absorption into the British Empire and the imposition of colonial status. The southern Kikuyu together with other African peoples did not take all these impacts lying down. As a result, once again the African people have recovered their sovereignty and political independence. On the religious scene, there has emerged indigenous Holy Spirit churches e.g. the Akorino, there has emerged splinter independent Pentecostal churches and in the last few years there is a revival of distorted forms of Kikuyu traditional religion e.g. the Mungiki movement. There are also very militant anti-Catholic sects determined to get defectors from the Catholic Church. It is neither realistic nor pastorally responsible to ignore this total religious environment in which the Catholic faithful are living. The Kikuyu Catholics would wish that the Catholic faith adequately replaces the Kikuyu African Traditional Religion and becomes a national heritage to be inherited by the rising and coming generations. It is precisely at this point that the problem arises. The majority of the laity feel they do not understand the Catholic system and they feel also that they have little or no say in it. This situation contrasted with the Kikuyu traditional family based religious system leads to the conclusion that the Catholic system must be investigated.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity
Divisions:	Afro-Christiana
Depositing User:	JHI Africa
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2015 05:48
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2015 05:48
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/308

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