Academic CV (Curriculum Vitae) College: Degree: • Pontifical Urbanian College, Rome, Italy, B. A, M. A. in Philosophy KAMAU JOSEPH KARIUKI Seminary: Degree: • Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, Italy, B. A. in Theology Graduate School: • Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, M. A. in Theology • Fribough State University, Switzerland, PhD in Philosophy • Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University, Pittsbugh, USA, PhD h Kariuki in Systematic Theology Professional CV • Teaching Religious Education, St. Paul’s Minor Seminary, Nyeri, Kenya (1978-1981) • Lecturing Moral Theology and the Social Teaching of the Church at St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya (1984-1994) Human Development • Lecturing Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and the Kamau Josep Public Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya (!985-2008) Community-based Service as Integral Development • Chairman, Department of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya (1984-1994) • Chairman, Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Eastern The Social Teaching of the Church Africa in Nairobi, Kenya in the Light of the Social Education • Vice Rector/Deputy Vice Chancellor/ Academic Dean at the Catholic Univer- sity of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya (1992-1994) and Ethics of Joseph Kentenich in • Chairman, Department of Philosophy at Kenyatta Public University (2001-2003) an African Context • Team Priest/Leader at the International Level of the Worldwide Marriage Encounter (1985-2003) • Founder member of the International Schœnstatt Movement of Spiritual Renewal and Social Reconstruction in Kenya (1983-2008) This book highlights human development as integral development by the methodological means of basing the latter on the recent social teaching of the Church as applied in the social education and ethics of Joseph Kentenich. The central question of investigation in the book is the problem statement of the extent to which the social teaching of the Church as well as its application in the social education and ethics of Kentenich may apply or may not apply in throwing more light on the chronic African problem of underdevelopment in Kenya. And the outstanding problem is posed with a view to overcoming obstacles on the way to integral development. Among known hindrances to authentic human development, especially since gaining political independence in 1963, is the thriving culture of corruption and greed. The latter is grounded on the sectarian or divisive tribalism as a biased affiliation of brotherhoods against perceived non-brothers. As no kingdom divided against itself can stand, the antago- nistic tribal affiliations breeding corruption and greed work to the detriment of social justice as well as the common good and integral development. As a logical consequence, the moral methodological justification for as well as the doctrinal source of inspiration in grounding the African social analysis on the social teaching of the Church as applied in Kentenich’s social education and ethics is the faith-awareness that the Church is a master or expert in humanity. And this doctrinal contention, is made from the biblico-theological stance of the universal missionary command of Jesus to his disciples:» Going out teach all nations…» (Mt 28:19). As it has already been observed, Joseph Kentenich is a living witness of the expertise of the Church on humanity today as it was in the after- math of the Industrial Revolution during the Great Depression in 1930s. Human Development as Integral Development as Integral Human Development This book can be downloaded from the webside www.moriah.de KAMAU JOSEPH KARIUKI Human Development as Integral Development The Social Teaching of the Church in the Light of the Social Education and Ethics of Joseph Kentenich in an African Context Important: This book can be downloaded from the Webside www.moriah.de Adress of Rev. F. Dr. Joseph Kariuki in KENYA: PO Box 622, 10200 Muranga, Kenya www.schœnstatt.de website for informations of the international Schœnstatt movement Burundi Hanover Park/Cape Town (Maryland) Mutumba Summit Rd, B. P. 2240 Hannover Park, Bujumbura 7780, Cape Town Burundi SÜDAFRIKA BURUNDI Phone: ++27-21-692-1180 Fax: ++257-23-5341 Fax: ++27-21-691-3344 Nigeria E-Mail: schœ[email protected]. za Ibadan Schœnstatt Fathers, Johannesburg-Bedfordview Ayo Oluwo Street 1, Ijokodo 33 Florence Avenue, G. P. O. 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Kaisho-Karagwe Fax: ++27-21-704-6624 Kagira E-Mail: [email protected]. za TANZANIA © 2014 Copyright by Kamau Joseph Kariuki Fabrication: Saint-Paul, Fribourg, Switzerland Dedication To Josef Engling: An Inspiring Model of Heroic Courage The Divine Providence has made it possible to publish this work in the centenary Jubilee Year of the International Schoenstatt Movement by Fr. Joseph Kentenich on October 18th, 1914. The logo at the cover of this book is a souvenir of the 100th. Jubilee. This work is then dedicated as a Jubilee Gift to the International Schoenstatt Family and especially to Schoenstatt Family in Africa. ForeworD In this book, Kamau Joseph Kariuki presents integral human development, based on the social teaching of the Roman Catholic church and the social educa- tion and ethics of Joseph Kentenich, as the basis for a more lasting and effective means of addressing what he sees as the chronic problem of underdevelopment in Kenya. Kariuki asserts that, especially since independence, corruption and greed fueled by other mitigating factors, such as tribal/ethnic belonging, have stymied the possibility of integral human development. Historical responses to this have primarily targeted economic and social issues but have not adequately addressed how these structural responses relate to the moral theological bases of these issues and more specifically to theindividual at the moral theological level. Kariuki situates the problematic and its resolution in the need for an integration of western liberal economic structures (liberal and neo-liberal capitalism) and an African socialism (typified byharambee ). This integration, suggests Kariuki, can optimally relate individual human rights with the needs and demands of the community and/or state. The inclusion of Joseph Kentenich and the Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt is intended to underscore how the integration of indi- vidual human rights with the needs/demands of a community can be helped by understanding the process of self-education as key to the repersonalization of individual and social relationships. Kariuki further argues that the social teach- ing of the Roman Catholic church supports such an integration and he affirms this by a careful presentation of Catholic social teaching from 1880 to the pres- ent day, all the while showing how Catholic social teaching understands human development as integral human development and as a human right that should be promoted and safeguarded by communities and states. In the end, integral human development promotes what Kariuki calls an inculturated African ethics of human development, which “is understood as an activity of the mind relating known African values to Western patterns of thought for reciprocal adjustment and mutual enrichment or integral development”, and an African theology of human development which makes use of “rich African values that would be en- nobled through dialogue with similar gospel values”. In this work then, Kariuki is calling for a truly global solution to a local situation. He makes us aware that integral human development is not just an option but also a necessity and a hu- man right if we are to see the flourishing of human dignity and happiness in our world. Gerald M. Boodoo iv ABSTrACT It has been commonly held that the main cause of underdevelop- ment is the lack of capital. This research is based on the observation that underdevelopment still persists in Kenya despite billions of dol- lars in foreign aid from Western Europe and North America. The main focus of this work is an attempt to understand an effective remedial action to such an economic situation of underdevelopment. The re- search work seeks to find the remedy for underdevelopment by the methodological means of demonstrating how a holistic understanding of human development entails integral development in Kenya. The thesis and the overview of this study are in the introduction. The claim that Kenya is still a developing nation is demonstrated in the first chapter. Chapter two clarifies the social education and ethics of Joseph Kentenich in pedagogical terms of self-education. Chap- ter three seeks a holistic understanding of human development as integral development with a view to overcoming underdevelopment in the methodological light of the pre-Vatican II social teaching of the Church. Chapter four illustrates such a holistic understanding as a rights-based concept of human development. Chapter five attempts to specify the post-conciliar holistic understanding of human develop- ment as integral development with a view to overcoming underdevel- opment. Chapter six searches for the remedy for underdevelopment within the conceptual framework of a rights-based understanding of human development as integral development. The concluding chapter seven seeks to contextualize the findings of the research work within the historical background of the nation- v state of Kenya. It proposes a cross-cultural encounter between African socialism and Western liberalism.