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Jordan University College THE REFLECTION MEDIUM AFRICA TOMORROW Inculturation is a difficult and delicate task, since it raises the question of the Church’s fidelity to the Gospel and the Apostolic Tradition amidst the constant evolution of cultures. Ecclesia in Africa , 62 Vol. 21 / No. 1-2 / June-December 2019 Editor: Fr. John Gibson, OCD Associate Editor: Dr. Marcel Mukadi, SDS Editorial and Review Board: Dr. Polycarp Hongoli, OSB Dr. Noah J. Mtana Prof. William Ngowi, OFM Cap Prof. Bernard Witek, SDS Published by: SALVATORIANUM Jordan University College P.O. Box 1878 Morogoro, TANZANIA Tel.: +255 23 2604854 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Web: www.juco.ac.tz Cover designed by Fr. Stanislaw Golus, SDS ISSN 1821-8083 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial .................................................................................................. 5 PHILOSOPHY & HUMAN SCIENCE ................................................ 11 Conscious Parenthood ........................................................................... 11 by Janet E. Smith ............................................................................. 11 A Semantic Analysis of Kisukuma Personal Names ............................. 41 by Filbert Athanas ........................................................................... 41 Culture and Design Thinking: Anatomy of the Law and Practice in Business Development and Management ............................................. 51 by Anneny Bernard Nahum & Esther Andrew Mdegipala .............. 51 THEOLOGY & CULTURE ................................................................. 69 The Origin and Functions of the New Testament Household Codes: A Case Study of 1 Peter 2:18-25 (Address to Slaves) ............................... 69 by Leonce F. Rambau, CSSp ........................................................... 69 Can God Really be in Pain? The Theopaschite Controversy ................ 97 by John Gibson, OCD ..................................................................... 97 Religious Charism of the Congregation of the Resurrection (CR) ...... 141 by James M. Gibson, CR ............................................................... 141 Editorial 1) Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2) For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3) He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4) Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. 6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8) By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9) And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10) Yet it was the will of the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand; 11) he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12) Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. 6 Africa Tomorrow 21/1-2 (June/December 2019) Dear Readers, we present to you issue number 21 of Africa Tomorrow at a particularly sad and distressing time in human history. People are suffering from a relatively unknown illness. There are many who carry fear in their hearts because of the illness. Perhaps they are not so much afraid that they are going to become victims of the virus itself; perhaps what frightens them is the economic insecurity that the illness seems to be inviting into the homes not only of the unemployed but also the homes of those that have become accustomed to work at a job day in and day out for twenty, thirty, or forty years. At Jordan University College we pray that students and their families will not let the socio-political and economic fragility of the moment intimidate them to the point of backing away from the commitment they have made to pursue the high quality education that we on the staff of the university are offering them. Indeed it should be crystal clear to anyone who knows our university that we lecturers are not modulating our vigour and zeal according to the money that we may or may not be receiving. Even though our religious communities may not have the food and water that we need, our purpose is not to make money. Our purpose is to introduce our students to the beauty and value of the truth – the truth that gives backbone – spinal stamina – to the family, to the local community, to the region, to the nation and to the world. It is the truth that shines forth in the human heart so that the heart may make concrete choices for social, political, economic, educational, moral, and spiritual integrity. No one can buy integrity. Without this integrity, the world crumbles and dissipates into a morass of self-centred secularism, relativism and outright ignorance of the path that leads to our true eternal home with God. What we at Jordan University College have to offer our students, our staff, our local community, our nation and the world is freedom, specifically, freedom from the schools of suspicion. The masters of suspicion have been an oft-repeated theme in this journal of Africa Tomorrow. The very renowned philosopher/ theologian from the University of Chicago, Paul Ricœur, described these masters and their schools in his book Le conflit des interprétations (Paris: Seuil, 1969), pp. 149-150. Pope St. John Editorial 7 Paul II took up the theme in his catechesis on the Theology of the Body, with a focus on the sub-topic, “Purity of Heart” and designated Marx, Freud and Nietzsche as masters of suspicion (General Audience of 29 October 1980). Both Ricœur and John Paul are clear and accurate in their summaries of the schools of suspicion. The ones who subscribe to these schools tailor their goals, their methods, their energies and their zeal according to their conscious – or perhaps unconscious – desires for money (Marx), social and sensual euphoria (Freud), and power, position and prestige (Nietzsche). These three «maîtres du soupçon» suggest that these desires for profit, for social and sensual pleasure and for power are so dominant that the human heart can never be pure. In short, they “suspect” the human heart. Freedom from the schools of suspicion means the freedom to go beyond self-preoccupation and subscribe to the ethic of self-gift. Those who promote the ethic of self-gift perceive the women, men and children who live by their side as people capable of loving and being loved. Those who live in my personal ambience may not seem to be ready to receive the gift I am offering them. They may not deserve my gift of myself, with all my talents, energies, priorities, goals, hopes, fears, dreams, and aspirations. I am also offering them my weaknesses with the full confidence that I will find strength precisely in them, in those God has given me, in those to whom I offer the gift of myself. In the present issue of Africa Tomorrow, the notion of self-gift is the current of energy that gives meaning, value and grace to the thought patterns and articulations of its contributors. The present issue offers the reader an article that comes forth from the hand of an international expert on the notion of love as self-gift and on the concomitant sexual abuse issues that begin to mushroom when men and women do not live according to the ethic of self-gift. Janet Smith, the adviser to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the issue of sexual abuse, has been recognized for several decades now as the philosopher most equipped to explain the ethical potholes that scar the human psyche and the human heart when men and women treat each other as sexual objects rather than as persons destined to be a gift to each 8 Africa Tomorrow 21/1-2 (June/December 2019) other. Presently she is supervising the doctoral dissertation of a JUCo interdisciplinary lecturer. She and her publisher were very happy to give Africa Tomorrow permission to print an article entitled “Conscious Parenthood”, that she had published for the first time in the journal Nova et Vetera, the 2008 issue, and then reprinted in her own book Self-Gift . True to the title of the article, Smith explains that the choice to engage in marital intercourse is the choice to respect the other person as a potential parent. Her article shines with her own spiritual appreciation for the priceless value of the mission inherent in every act of intercourse: namely, the mission to act as a “co-thinker” with God and as a “co-creator” with Him.

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