High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Professor Jesse Mugambi is one of the most challenging and prolific African scholars in the disciplines of Christian Theology, Philosophy of Religion and Applied Ethics. Early in 1990 he became widely acclaimed in Christian theological circles after he addressed the General Committee of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) on 30 March at Nairobi, reflecting on “The Future of the Church and the Church of the Future in Africa.”. This event was a few weeks after Nelson Mandela had been released on 11 February 1990 and Namibia had attained national independence on 21 March of the same year. In his Address, Mugambi suggested that African Christianity must shift theological gear from the paradigm of liberation, which emphasised the Exodus motif, to that of reconstruction, which emphasises the post-Exilic motif. He later elaborated this insight in his book From Liberation to Reconstruction: African Christian Theology after the Cold War. Professor Tinyiko Maluleke in his review of Mugambi"s book commented that Mugambi is "a passionate and committed African Churchman, theologian and continental patriot of our times." The material in this article is drawn from both library and fieldwork research in various contexts of Professor Mugambi"s life—family, academic, ecclesiastical, ecumenical, professional. Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences (MKNAS). In 1990-91 he was Visiting Mellon Distinguished Professor at Rice University, Houston, Texas, in the Department of Religious Studies. His Doctoral Thesis, completed in 1984 at the University of Nairobi, was on Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing on problems of meaning in discourse with reference to religion. His professional training is in Education, Communication and University Management. His academic training is in Philosophy, Religious Studies, Theology, Literature and History. His research interests include Applied Ethics and Ecology. His honorary service has been mainly the Ecumenical Movement at the local, national, regional, continental and global levels. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких информационных ссылок, не имеет самостоятельного сюжета, не содержит никаких аналитических материалов, выводов, оценок морального, этического, политического, религиозного и мировоззренческого характера в отношении главной тематики, представляя собой исключительно фактологический материал. Показать
