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Tiendrebeogo, Wenceslas Michel. "La CERAO et l'édification d'une église régionale en Afrique de l'Ouest." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25787.
Full textThe subject of the regional African Churches is the major preoccupation of this reflection. The author divides that subject into three major sections. Asking what a regional Church and its role are today, the author first introduces the current practices of collaboration and communion found in one modern episcopal conference of West Africa (CERAO). The significant contemporary practices that are brought in focus do recall the practices that were customary within the local networks of ecclesial coordination, territorial or regional, during the first six centuries of Christianity. After this historical introduction, the author moves on to a systematic approach apt to clarify the theological and canonical foundation of a regional Church. He also considers the teaching of the Council of Vatican II and the post-conciliar canonical elaborations on the regrouping of Churches. He also takes due account of the teaching of the Magisterium as well as of the works of some theologians and canon lawyers on the matter. Since he is primarily concerned with the African regional Churches, the author concludes his critical reflection on how, within the concrete perspective and the particular context of ecclesial, political, human, economical and cultural integration, the CERAO brings to realization pastoral, organic solidarity in reference to Ecclesia in Africa (16, 63, 72, 131) of Pope John Paul II. The author offers his reflection in the perspective of Lumen Gentium 23, which he believes encourages a genuine solidarity within the large cultural areas of the world. His work allows for a better knowledge and eventually for rewarding reflection on the practices of communion and organic pastoral solidarity in Africa. It also leads to a better understanding of the historical, theological and canonical value of the fusion between two important regional episcopal conferences in West Africa: AECAWA and CERAO. For the author, it is also an opportunity to assess the emergence of a new ecclesial object of study, which he calls a genuine apprenticeship in the task of the edifying a regional Church in West Africa.
Agayi, Marc Kodjo. "L'engagement politique des chrétiens dans les pays francophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest (1990-2005)." Strasbourg, 2010. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2010/AGAYI_Marc_Kodjo_2010.pdf.
Full textWhich politics in Africa and how to commit? The French speaking countries of Western Africa are searching a stable political system allowing them to develop men and society. Political stability and those developments are not yet guaranteed by the choice or the acceptance of democracy. Democracy has its place in African society, even though some criticize and others encourage it. Its enculturation needs the participation of every citizen, especially associations, groups and movements of the civil society. Religions and Christians, in particular, must play a decisive role in the current democratic system in Africa. Their numerical growth and dynamism need no longer to be proven in Africa. Christians must unite in associations, and act in politics by defending human and Christian social values. The Christians’ political commitment, by means of associations, can enrich the substance of politics intervening in their churches. It may also give them new consideration in society and politics, enabling them to influence authorities in their political-decision making
Djéréké, Jean-Claude. "Eglise catholique et évènements politiques (1960-2005) : Etude des lettres pastorales des évèques de Côte d'Ivoire." Paris, EPHE, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EPHE5006.
Full textSombel, Sarr Benjamin. "L'homme écartelé : approche théologique des représentations de la maladie et des pratiques de guérison dans l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STR20020.
Full textThis dissertation aims at writing a theological analysis of the representations of illness and practices of healing within African Christian communities. Those practices are done as a way to respond to existential questions raised by the traditional world, questions related particularly to illness and sorcery. They are also a quest for solutions to evils which challenge modernity: poverty, sharing wealth, issues related to political power, etc. Therefore, Christ as a healer becomes a key figure who articulates modernity and tradition. Around him takes place a process of Christianization of the representations of illness and practices of healing, which proposes the expected salvation as magics. As a result of this approach, healing Christologies become functional. They replace the categories of a "christology from the top" by a Christology of proximity which introduces Christ as the "one with the people" in their real existential life conditions. We go from an ontological Christology to an existential Christology. The divine healing around Christ raises relevent questions. However, the response to it reduces salvation to itts external signs without fully capturing its meaning. Taking into account the questions raised by all those requests for healing from African Christian communities, it is way more than simply setting up healing prayers. We are rather invited to deeply reflect on mediations by which Christ's healing can be deployed today in Africa, and to better understand the theological, ecclesiological and pastoral implications of it
Mandah, Okimou Ambroise. "L'Eglise catholique d'Afrique à l'ère des communications de masse." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003STR20073.
Full textAs soon as in the 19th century, the Church in Africa stepped into the mass communication era. The progress of evangelisation coincided with the rise of mass media and with the normalization of their relationship to the Catholic Institution as a whole. It was fostered by the missionary press and by the creativity of the missionaries. Once entrusted to the care of the native pastors, the Church was to continue this work and to make its own the positive approach of social means of communication supported by the Vatican II council. Since, an enormous work has been done. It witnesses the real will of most of the pastors, to invest in this new mission field. This commitment however suffers from many deficiencies that constite a challenge not to miss a historical appointment with contemporary humanity. The media being properly inescapable nowadays, the answer the pastors will give to this challenge will depend the capacity of the Church to carry on in Africa, its mission of human promotion
Noagbodji, Pierre Koffi. "Eucharistie, sacrement du Salut et de l'humanisation de l'homme." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STR20065.
Full textSince the time of the New Testament the Eucharist has been in the centre of the life of the Church. Being the sacrament of the reality of a universal redemption and also paschal sacrament, the Eucharist influences the believer's life of faith and existence. At the time when the African continent is changing and finds itself carried away by a spirit of emancipation, the Christian African is summoned to live and celebrate a liberating faith through the Eucharist. The Eucharist indeed is a place for man's humanization. Through it mankind is called to get into communion with God the Creator who is also God the Saviour. This prospect is developed in three stages: redemption for man today in the occidental context, redemption for man in Africa at the dawn of the third millennium and the Eucharist as a means of achieving this redemption
Messomo, Ateba Augustin Germain. ""Memoire blessée" et "Eglise du peuple" : à la recherche des fondements d'une ecclésiologie africaine." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002STR20031.
Full textWhile the Catholic Church in Africa is about to inaugurate a new way of evangelising, a great amount of African bishops still getting worried about the question of credibility and relevance of the Gospel. It is obvious that de black continent gets involved in a kind of multifacetical crisis since the period of its independences. So the balance of this situations shows clearly the limits of traditional trends of the evangelization as designed by the known fathers of Synod. .
Racinet, Sabine. "Peuplement et christianisation dans la partie occidentale de la province ecclésiastique de Reims." Reims, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002REIML012.
Full textRamazani, Bishwende Augustin. "Eglise-famille de Dieu, "communion ou société"? : reprise historique de la pensée des théologiens et du magistère africains (1962-1994)." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE5034.
Full textUnder the influence of R. Bellarmin and of the theologians of the Roman School, Vatican I which sought to legitimise the pontifical authority of the Bishop of Rome, has left us a legacy of the ecclesiological concept of the Church as a visible, hierarchical and juridical society. Thanks to Möller of the German school of Tübingen and because of the advocates of the “new theology” of the French school (Y. Congar, H. De Lubac, J. Daniélou), Vatican II realised a real hermeneutical turning point. The Church saw itself as a communion and people of God in the history of a people going to God. In the post-conciliar search for a possible synthesis between Vatican I and Vatican II and in the African context, is the Church-family of God, a key concept of the African Synod, really a society or a communion? In a historical and hermeneutical perspective, starting with Vatican II up to the African Synod of 1994, our aim is to take contemporary Catholic theology out of the prism of the obsession of the dialectical synthesis “communion/society”. What is at stake in this study is to encourage a dialectical going-beyond of the societal model and to go out of the binomial “communion/society” in view of creating a really relational Church built on the transcending trinomial ecclesiology of the communion model. The Church-family of God, an African Symbol of the sacred, is not a society but rather a “communion”, a “family”, and a Eucharistic “fraternity” of the baptised gathered around the Risen Christ under the action of the Holy Spirit. In a Eucharistic communion, Christ is there in his fullness as a spiritual food for this life and for eternal life
Lanoue, Éric. "Les politiques de l'école catholique en Afrique de l'Ouest : le cas de la Côte-d'Ivoire (1945-2000)." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0076.
Full textThis thesis first describes the contexts of evolution of the missionary schools within the vast geopolitical areas of Subsaharian Africa, particularly in West African countries since 1945. It then questions the factors that transformed these schools into Catholic or public ones at the time of independence: what roles the states and the churches have played in directing the national educational policies? In Ivory Coast the conditions of an existing perennial confessional school networks were brought together and maintained by the Catholic churches and the state, contrary to the situations met in other African countries (suppression, resettlement). The integration of the Catholic schools in the national education system, their relation to the masses as well as to the teachers deserve to be re-examined: the affiliation of these schools to the public education sector is being questioned because of the recommendations of the funding agencies and the relative pulling back of the state; groups (federations or unions) are reacting to the effects of imposed privatisation on social and educational spheres: the “private” aspect of these schools attracts the discouraged families by public schools often discredited. The survey which was made from archives and interviews (teachers and students, prelates and minister, parents of different educational and social background) traces the conflicting history of agreements made between the State and the church since 1960, keeping in view the decreasing number of pupils in Catholic schools whereas the public and secular private schools show an increasing number of pupils. Catholic schools are regarded as belonging to private or public education sector: this circumscribes a struggle between many actors within a certain politicised educational field. The observation of these struggles brings in the question of redefinition of “public” and “private” categories and also reveals the vitality of their exchanges
David, Alain Patrick. "Le rapport Église-monde dans les interventions des évêques d'Afrique noire aux assemblées du Synode des évêques de 1967 à 2009." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25922.
Full textWhat comprehension of the Church-world relationship emerges from the discussions of the bishops of Black Africa at the meetings of their Synod of bishops between 1967 and 2009? This is the question our present study seeks to explore. On the one hand, it proposes a study of the bishops' discussions, and on the other, it seeks to comprehend the vision which they have of the Church and of her relationship with the world in which it lives – a world with which it seeks to dialogue. The modality of this dialogue with the world is a question that arises, and must be specified. In the first place, the foundation of this theological and ecclesiological research is an exercise in reading the texts. The exercise consists of bringing together and presenting a body of work; as well as examining the context of contemporary Africa, and the ecclesial context of the Church of Africa as the location in which these episcopal communications have been delivered. These contextual elements prepare us for – and lead us into – an analysis of the bishops' discussions from the perspective of a relationship: that of the Church with the world. In the second section, the elements gathered from a search through the whole body of work have been reorganized into a summary of the ecclesiological profile which emerges from an analysis of these discussions by the bishops of Sub-Saharan Africa. In order to reach that point, we have worked through the problem of Church-world relationship in both Vatican II and in the discussions of the African bishops, with the goal of ultimately identifying the principal ecclesiological models which run through them. At the end, in light of the concepts of solidarity, dialogue, and service which are present in Gaudium et spes, a final synthesis evaluates the ecclesiological contribution of the bishops of Africa.
Laprise, Maxime. "Voir sans regarder, montrer sans laisser voir : l'élévation de l'hostie et son rapport visuel avec les fidèles en Europe occidentale, du milieu du XIIe siècle à la fin du XIVe siècle." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27272.
Full textKumbu, ki Kumbu Éleuthère. "Les problèmes du ministère presbytéral en Afrique noire (1972-1985). Essai d'évaluation des propositions d'avenir." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040155.
Full textThe situation of African catholic churches is still characterized by an important lack of priests. Two essential questions arise in the proposed solutions : in one hand, can the African Christianity survive without an ordained ministry, and in the other hand which concrete social form will the clergy in Africa take? The real purpose of the Christian "ordination" shows that laien leaders of Christian communities cannot be allowed to celebrate Eucharisty, and that the temporary ordination of several communities' presidents is theologically wrong. This essay has also indicated that many wished evolutions of the clergy's social form in Africa are against the main trends of the actual one
Mpimpa, Fiamba Nestor. "L'émergence d'une Église locale au diocèse d'Idiofa au Congo-Zaïre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ55823.pdf.
Full textMuhindo, Matiri Benoît. "Le Synode pour l'Afrique, émergence d'un projet d'évangélisation." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/44281.
Full textShamvu, Jean-Pierre Mulago. "Célébrer des passages dans les Églises de l'Afrique subsaharienne." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ55795.pdf.
Full textBalard, Martine. "L'oeuvre du révérend-père Francis Aupiais (1877-1945), missionnaire ethnographe de la Société des missions africaines de Lyon." Perpignan, 1996. http://books.openedition.org/pupvd/3784.
Full textReverend father aupiais (1877-1945) from the society of african missions in lyon lived for 23 years in dahomey (1903-1926). The interest he showed in the local population that he wanted to convert was a break away from the usual practices of the vast majority of his predecessors. Our thesis aims at exploring the thought and work of the father and ascertaining the way they concur with the ideology of "africanism" as first elaborated by maurice delafosse who was aupiais's spiritual guide. He gathered a collection of objects d'art which were exhibited when he returned to france in 1926. Then he passionately followed marcel mauss's "learned teachings" at the institute of ethnology in order to gain a scientific method but he soon departed from it, judging it "inordinately sociological". He then became more involved with the group of missionaries who, in louvain, recommended the necessity of a new apostolitic approach of the native people, a "missiologie" enlightened by ethnological data. In 1929-1930, for the sake of albert kahn, he made two films, "le dahomey chretien" and "le dahomey religieux", as well as a series of magnificent "autochromes" (colour films). Thanks to our thesis, those documents have been restored. Futhermore, our thesis sets out to analyse the significance as well as the historical and ethnographical interest of the most pertinent scenes from the two films. As far as the "autochromes" are concerned - they have been selected and reproduced in the thesis itself - their contents has systematically been explored. Moreover, whenever necessary, the reproduction of photograms (picture pauses) has been included in order to highlight the ethnographical approach. Aupiais was also the untiring supporter of an african ethnology originated from the local people themselves, an "africanisme du dedans" (africanism from within). In 1925, he launched the modest journal, "la reconnaissance africaine", and promoted the work of paul hazoume, the first dahomean writer, considered by aupiais as his spiritual son. A militant of social catholicism, between 1927 and 1931, he courageously became involved and actively denunciated forced labour in the colonies, which caused him a great many setbacks within his own society of missionaries and which was to bring about his exile, directed by his superiors, to a small apostolic school in the landes region
Adje, Assandi Moïse. "Refonder la politique en Afrique pour une raison vertueuse." Strasbourg 2, 2007. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/restreint/theses_doctorat/2007/ADJE_Assandi_Moise_2007.pdf.
Full textAfrica has failed on every matter : politically, economically and socially. In fact, the african history, from the first independant empires to the pre - and colonial times, cannot provide valuable political solutions. Neither tradition nor modernity can constitute a solution for todays turbulences. Political future troubles African states. It is our outline to “refund” politics through a integral vision of mankind and its calling. For that reason we want to appeal to the social belief of the Church as Saint Thomas d’Aquin described it in his thoughts. It consists of clearing up the rights and obligations of mankind that are pertaining to its nature and life. These rights bind authorities which are themselves preceded by a political obligation that introduces its argument. These rights are the rights of everyone and the obligations procede from that common humanity and are certified by state institutions which organise the common life for the common good. It is necesary to hold in the same time the value of human life in itself and the link of duty which binds every men in between. At the intersection between the received and the given life, between grace and responsability, are attitudes and acts to find, a passive and active mix which is called RIGHTEOUSNESS or “righteous reason”. We suggest clues for this continent. It seems to be fundamental to restore a cultural existence to ethnos, to federate inter-state groups and to reconcile them in spite of borders, in order to release politics in its expression. This alternative bears ethics wich opens freedom, because group ethics, passing by meetings, takes back the total man and makes a way to cultural enthousiasm. So we recognize the supremacy of the group over the individuals, but through the multiplication of relationship and communication
Anokye, Gabriel. "Eucharistie et libération en Afrique noire : le cas des Ashanti du Ghana." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA040032.
Full textNkounga, Francois Joseph. "Le rôle de l’Église catholique dans la colonisation française en Afrique subsaharienne : Éducation et hypocrisie dans Une vie de boy de Ferdinand Oyono." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100395.
Full textKpongo, Iwewe. "Le patrimoine foncier de l'Église catholique en Afrique : l'exemple du diocèse de Budjala en République démocratique du Congo." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010576.
Full textNdongala, Maduku Ignace. "Consistance propre des églises locales et communion entre elles : esquisse d'une théologie des églises régionales." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040111.
Full textThe essential theme which has guarded us throughout this study has been that of the theology of regional churches. In order to prove how catholicity and communion are inscribed therein, we have studied the question of the particular consistency of local churches. Upon analysis, we observe that the question of the identity of local appears to be a request in favour of a larger catholicity of the church. It becomes like a plea for some african theologians and bishops in favour of autonomy of local churches. Notwithstanding the real process taken into consideration by this concept, it is difficult to universalise it in the context of the ecclesiology of communion. This is illustrated by the analysis of the concept of autonomy and the interecclesial regulation at the first millenium. We have developed two important themes having ecumenical and ecclesiological implications, in order to inscribe the social, cultural and traditional homogeneity in the ecclesial structures: the implications being the restructuration of the patriarchate of the west and the distinction of the pope's titles. These themes have suggested to us a pluralist model: the regional churches, defined as a juridical unity and organised to cover a human space marked by specific culture. This unity embraces several local churches and goes beyong the nation without coinciding with the continent. This structure that we propose de iure condendo must, on the one hand, favour inculturation and allow diverse traditions of local churches to be manifested with their particularities (spiritual, liturgical, disciplinary and theology). On the other hand, it must not only lead to a re-establishment of full communion between the western and eastern churches, but also to the recomposition of the unity of the church
Sene, Jean Marie Latyre. "Universalité ou contingence du modèle transnational : les leçons du cas de l'Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (UCAO)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAB019/document.
Full textPresented as an organization model to face globalization in the early 90’s by Bartlett & Ghoshal, The transnational has inspired lot of researchers.The problematic of this thesis aims to verify whether the transnational structure is an organization which fits firms only.With the help of a case study applied to a network structure “The catholic University of West Africa” and based on existing Theories in management and multinational governance, our work will attempt to test this hypothesis in an experimental research field in an African Context. This field is illustrated by a non-profit religious organization.The results allowed us to realize that the transnational model can be implemented in this kind of organization, but one should proceed step by step to achieve a global integration of all the operational and functional activities, starting by those alleged to be more relevant. The impact of religion and non-profit organization has been highlighted as factors playing a positive role in the studied cases
Puglisi, James F. "Étude comparative sur les processus d'accès au ministère ordonné : le sens du ministère épiscopal et la structuration de l'Eglise qui se dévoilent dans les procédures d'installation ou d'ordination à l'épiscopat (évêque, surintendant, inspecteur écclésiastique...) et au presbytérat (prêtre, pasteur...), dans l'Eglise catholique-latine et certaines Eglises luthériennes, réformées, anglicanes et méthodistes en Europe occidentale et aux Etats-Unis." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040075.
Full textFrom an analysis of the liturgico-canonical institutions in three different periods, the complexity of the structure of ordination and the relational dimension of the ordained ministry in the structuring of the church are discovered. Ordination is a complex process, which links ministry, local church, profession of faith and communion. This concrete process is at the same time communitarian, liturgical and juridical, and, through these traits, sacramental. Christian ordination cannot be reduced to a simple rite of installation or assuming a charge but is an ecclesial process whereby the Christian receives a charism for the edification of the church. The significance of the pastoral ministry of direction is best summed up by the functions: 'episkope' and the role of presiding over the building-up of the body of Christ
Sabuni, Kitutu Léon. "La notion de religion populaire appliquée au catholicisme en Afrique : regard sur les conditions et les enjeux actuels de la piété populaire dans le champ religieux du continent africain." Strasbourg, 2011. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/theses_doctorat/2011/SABUNI_KITUTU_Leon_2011.pdf.
Full textThe remarkable growth in the contemporary religious field all sorts of forms of "popular religiosity" within or outside established religious institutions may seem a paradox in this third millennium. Thus, in the case of Christianity, it is established that throughout its history the question of religious beliefs and practices popular saying has often been perceived as the domain of the survivals of paganism that the institution had to fight. Field of Catholicism in Africa, the question of "popular religiosity" is also an issue and this, in the context of a widespread religious ferment, while feeding on the resources offered by the Christian tradition also draws the pool of religion and traditional culture. This phenomenon presents itself as a new way to worship and live the Christian faith that challenges the theological and pastoral responsibility of the Church. By its exponential character and his strong theological and anthropological dimension, the problem of "popular religiosity" became a religious and social condition which must not remain indifferent to anyone interested in the present and the future of the young and dynamic African Christianity
Otchokpo, Augustin Dzifa. "Pour un concile africain : Genèse, analyse et réception de l'exhortation post-synodale "Ecclesia in Africa"." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003STR20042.
Full textThe African synod which had been convoked by Pope John-Paul II an January 6th 1989 took place in Rome from April 10th to May 8th 1994. It was a really important event for Africa, "an intense and sustained collegial work" as the Pope said. But it is a known fact that it took place in Rome at the end of a long negotiation and amid some discrepant speeches. As a matter of fact the story of evangelisation which was going together with colonization had created the "three C theory : colonizing, civilizing and christianising". . .
Tiendrebeogo, Wenceslas Michel. "Le développement de l'Église-Famille de Dieu au Burkina Faso : le cas de l'archidiocèse de Ouagadougou." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25815/25815.pdf.
Full textThe key concept of Church as the Family of God conveying current African theology is the continuation of the idea of the Church developed by Africans for African Churches as a result of the second Vatican Council. It may be understood and situated within the context of inculturated evangelization in Africa. This dissertation shows how the concept came into being in the Church of Burkina, established by the Missionaries of Africa who wanted to found ecclesiastical, supportive, fraternal, adult and responsible communities capable of taking the practical details of their development into their own hands. By going over the development of Burkina’s Church as the Family of God from its origin, the author highlights its “instituting actions”. In the light of the conciliar document Ad Gentes, he raises theological questions concerning the development of the Church as the Family of God using the specific case of the archdiocese of Ouagadougou between 1977 and 2002.
Tchitembo, Jean Michel. "Pour une approche théologique de l'impact des médias modernes dans les sociétés africaines et leur influence dans la pratique de l'évangélisation de nos jours en Afrique : (recherche-action au Congo Brazzaville)." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004STR20080.
Full textAfrican people, whatever their age are fascinated by highways of communication relating the public, sociocultural, political and religious levels. In Africa, mainly in Congo, the catholic Church would like to use modern media as means of evangelization. Through some historical facts, we can note the modern means used by local churches, that is, radio and television to broadcoast religious programmes. In most of african countries, public or state media keep on broacasting the local churches’s programmes, certainly with some difficulties, till they may get their own instruments. By experience, let us be aware that, a new culture like audiovisual requires a sufficient training so to avoid excess. So, in church, practical theology together with the means of action-research method will be very useful, in view to join knowledge and action, that is to lonk training and the trainer who must be a guide. That practical theology requires the theme of incarnation especially of inculturation because of culture shock between two visions : African tradition based on orality versus on behalf of a mediatic culture. But in spite of modernity, the new culture is to be evangelized so that, it may be a chance for local churches
Rakotoarisoa, Faustin. "L'autorité des évêques et le gouvernement de la vie et du ministère des prêtres : doctrine, droit et praxis en Afrique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAK002.
Full textThe bishop holds an inherent authority from the apostolic succession, the fullness of the sacrament of orders, the multiple power that canon law bestows upon him. The authority of the bishops in Africa is reinforced by the distinctiveness of their status, whether it is at the social, cultural or political level. They are hardly disputable. Presbyters always have to refer to their bishop in the exercise of their ministry, no matter the size of that ministry, and that because of the legal binding of the incardination. This guarantees the governance of the priests, the hierarchy and the efficiency of diocesan administration. However, the bishop’s authority doesn’t always prevail because of the tribalism, the abuse of power of certain priests and the disobedience that puts a strain on the authority. It must be noted that certain bishops also abuse of their authority, violate in impunity the ecclesiastical norms and fail to exercise their responsibilities to the priests’ detriment. Therefore, it is necessary to return to the importance of service in the exercise of the episcopal ministry and to reinforce the rigorous application of universal law of the Catholic Church. If the Supreme authority of the Church is willing to manifest its evolution by severely sanctioning the bishops who fail their mission, there will be a true opportunity for change in order, for the ecclesiastical institution who faces the diocesan realities in Africa, to advance more largely in terms of control, caution, sanction and protection of the rights for both the priests and the laity
Balle, Nicole. "Le projet éducatif de Marie-Eugénie Milleret en Afrique noire d'hier à demain : mise en oeuvre de la dialectique instruction / éducation." Rouen, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000ROUEL349.
Full textYaovi, Voedzo Séverin. "Eglise-Famille-de Dieu : genèse et pertinence du concept : le cas du Togo." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAK015.
Full textSince 'Ecclesia in Africa', the concept of the Church as Family of God has been identified as the African concept for the development of the Ecclesiology of communion advised by the second Vatican Council and as the key of the new evangelization in Africa. Its adoption has given rise to polemics among African priests and theologians, in particular concerning its genesis and its significance. Several biblical and theological studies have been carried out about the concept of the Church as Family of God. Their aim is mostly to confirm it as the ecclesiological concept in Africa. However it turns out that the promotion given at the continental, national and diocesan levels to the concept of the Church as Family of God is merely institutional or even conventional. To transcend a purely superficial implementation of the concept it seems necessary and urgent that primary importance be given to each local Church’s specific features, in terms of history, culture and community life, following the example of the experience of the Church in Burkina Faso, which turns out to be the founding model. The present work, which aims to be a monograph, delineates the genesis of the concept of the Church as Family of God in Burkina Faso and assesses its significance in a given field : the Roman Catholic Church in Togo. Eventually it attempts to reform the concept of the Church as Family of God with a view to sustaining a community reception of the second Vatican Council and of 'Ecclesia in Africa' in Togo
Iffono, Aly Gilbert. "Histoire des Kissia de la République de Guinée : de la conquête coloniale à la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0138.
Full textThe thesis presents the Kissi traditional society for a period of 50 years as it was conquered, dominated and exploited by France, Brita in and Liberia. It tried to show the impact of this trio colonization on the development of the society, to show in the final analysis, the ruptures inflicted and the heritage that was preserved. The question to answer is whether colonization was the unique cause of current conditions of undeveloped African society generally and the Kissi society particularly. To answer this question, the thesis presents 3 tendencies: One holds firmly culpable the colonization and systematically denies any benefit derived from it to the concerned societies. The second, while incriminating Africans, pays homage to the "goodness of colonization in Africa". The third estimates that responsibility lies at the door of Africans as much as the colonial factor. Faced with this contradiction and strong divergent perceptions, the research concludes that though colonization carries a heavier responsibility, Africans can not be totally exonerated. One only has to remember the internal contradictions which facilitated the conquest and the domination of the continent in the first place, or the complicity of some African chiefs who contributed largely to the colonial implantation and exploitation of their own territories. However, despite colonial conquest and the different forms of societal ruptures it brought here and there, the Kissi people were able to save their main culture as well as their leadership or governing system inherited from the pre-colonial era. In the end, the research concluded that the Kissi people are very conscientious of their existence as a socially, politically, and culturally well organized people in their environment and within defined boundaries known to all. The Kissi people are also conscientious of their history, culture and civilization they have every intention to defend and transmit through generations
Rubuguzo, Mpongo Roger. "Penser l'Afrique et son avenir avec Marc Sangnier et Emmanuel Mounier : la voie du personnalisme communautaire." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008STR20068.
Full textThis study is an attempt at an ethical analysis of intercultural encounters, from the “African texts” by Marc Sangnier (1873-1950) and Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950). These two - Christian - thinkers were great witnesses of twentieth-century history: social, political, economical, literary, philosophical and theological history, as well as their international corollaries. Special interest will be given to the visions of Africa that these two authors had in their time: their questionings shed a new, thought-provoking light on European - African relationships. How can this history of encounters, hidden in archives, help us evaluate constantly the ones which are in our hands and which we may head one way or another? How can the views of these “revolutionary” pilgrims help the African theologian think the evangelization of the African peoples within the “Church - family of God” in a relevant manner? More precisely, isn’t the path of community personalism practical teaching for Africa where ethnic conformism – far from combining differences and opening dialogue – brings subjects to a standstill? Thinking Africa and its future with Marc Sangnier and Emmanuel Mounier reveals what others bring us in terms of humanity when we dare encounter and offer a “word”. An African reader will find both of them convincing, as they were Christian intellectuals and had a “knowledge” of Africa: as such, they also carry a message and luck. Taking it with “generosity” would be a genuine chance for Africa and today’s world
Konan, Kouadio Colbert. "Eucharistie et libération en Afrique : pain du ciel, pain des hommes." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAK015/document.
Full textThis thesis tries to answer this existential question : « How the Eucharist, body and blood of Christ, can be spiritual food and sacrament of liberation for nations suffering from hunger ? ». This question has led me to investigate the places where Eucharist calls Humankind to ancharismatic and prophetic attitude when confrontated to dramatic circumstances which provoke/ induce Hunger and Misery in Africa, the geographical place of this study. This Study (Thesis) tries to highlight the moral qualities of Sharing, Solidarity, Communion and Fraternity that are specific to Eucharist, through which this Sacrament can lead African Christians to a total Liberation in Jesus-Christ. In this study, by articulating Eucharist and Liberation, the searcher referes to the african theology of Liberation which he presents as apossibility given to African people to fight against all forms of oppression that denie Mankind and affects the message of Liberation brought by Jesus Christ. The Eucharist is bread of Heaven but also bread for Mankind, opens to life but not to resignation, to false piety and to death
Kane, Ismaïla. "État et minorités religieuses: les représentations des catholiques au Burkina Faso et au Sénégal." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33127.
Full textBaccouche, Elyes. "L’autorité de l’Église d’Afrique : L’action dans la cité de l’édit de tolérance constantinien jusqu’à l’invasion vandale." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2167.
Full textThis thesis was elaborated in the framework of a Franco-Tunisian cooperation between the University of Tunis and Lyon 2, under the joint direction of Dr. Samir AOUNALLAH and Dr. Paul MATTEI. The work which begun in April 2010 refers to the action of the Church in Africa in the city from the tolerance edict of Constantine until the Vandal invasion. The lack of a detailed and specified work regarding this subject is among the reasons that led us to begin this research. Thematically speaking, we have tried to determine how the definition of the term auctoritas and his agent name auctor (who gives the guarantee and support to its dependent) may express the bishop's action preoccupied by the interests of his faithfuls. As regards to the different manifestations of the civil judicial authority of the Church, we have tried to examine the differences in meaning between audientia episcopalis and iudicium ecclesiasticum. The audientia episcopalis takes care of the civil disputes between laity ; the iudicium ecclesiasticum was occupied by the private disputes and public crimes but evolving from the clerics. Moreover, the composition of the audientia episcopalis, as we mentioned, is original : it was reduced to a single judge : the bishop. In the social sphere, the Church's authority occurs mainly in helping poor. To better understand the action of the Church, we first tried to define poverty in Africa, taking into consideration the economic setting. Linguistically, we have noticed the capital employment and generic adjective pauper and its various derivatives in the meaning of poverty in the late period in Africa. Furthermore, the investigation of the terms mean economic poverty in St. Augustine texts enabled us to draw up the following list : debilis ; egens ; esuriens ; indigent ; inferior ; infirmus ; inops ; mediocris ; mendicus ; miser ; pauper ; plebs ; tenuis. Similarly, the massive use of pauper throughout the relevant period would tend to prove the Christian imprint on Roman law. Indeed, we count 20 occurrences of the word pauper in the Theodosian Code, 10 of which related to the Church. However, it is allowed to say that the later legal texts were inspired by those of the High Empire where the word pauper appears 17 times. The review of the work of St. Augustine has enabled us to portray the poor taking into account a number of different conditions : physical condition (the poor is one who is hungry, who is homeless, living in the nudity and whose clothes are very rudimentary) and physical disability. We should also be based on the legal parameter when we speak of slaves, colonos and foreigners. In the same meaninig, many features have contributed to explain the exact portrait of the poor. Poverty can concern prisoners, prostitutes, widows, orphans, minors and victims of usury. In addition, we have established a scale of poverty : 1. the entire poverty. 2. poverty due to constraints of oppression and accidental crises in urban areas as well as in rural areas. 3. relative poverty : it concerns people who have modest resources (mediocres) to live. African texts show, that in Africa, the poor were oppressed in both urban and rural areas,while Italian sources show the oppressed poor come mostly from rural areas in Italy. Moreover, always in Africa, we deduce that the needy who use the Church's assistance are concentrated in cities, while documents are mute, apparently, on the Church's assistance in rural areas. Therefore, we found a lack of charitable institutions of the Church in the rural areas where its action is concentrated mainly on the fight against injustice. We have also showed that the Church in Africa has established an assistance system based on a triple base : biblical, imperial and canon law. Then, we have found the constitution of the necessary bases from assistance to action, i.e. to enrich the church’s assets, establishment of the charitable institutions, admonition to help those in need
Katchekpele, Leonard Amossou. "Les enjeux politiques de l'Église en Afrique : contribution à une théologie du politique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAK017.
Full textEchoes from Africa to the world and from the world to Africa seem to tell a single story: Africa fails.Especially political Africa. Among those dashing to help, the commitment of the Church catholic is to be praised but also critically engaged. Can anyone help Africa to modernize by ignoring that in Africa, modernity meant colonization? Then, a question: what is the Church doing, and what can it do qua Church, for Africa? This confronts us with a situation, an action and a critical question. This work, focusing on Togo taken as mirror to the continent, aims at challenging the way the situation is described, at elaborating an answer to the question in hoping to shed a light on the way the action is understood and undertaken. For such an end, it draws on post-colonial studies and on the Cambridge theological movement called Radical Orthodoxy, through the works of J. Milbank and W. Cavanaugh
Adjati, Toussaint. "La papauté face à l'independance de l'Afrique : cas du Benin et du Senegal 1955-1965." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0046.
Full textThe papacy did not remain on the sidelines of the African decolonization. Indeed, considering that people overseas are mature enough for independence, she has found, despite the fact that it is not politics, the courage to contribute to the advent of independence African it also supported by numerous direct and indirect actions of years virtually all economic and social policy areas and cultural. But today, 50 years later, look how she deals with this African independence
Nongo, Aziagbia Nestor Désiré. "La fraternité en Christ : fondements de l’être ecclésial et son incidence africaine." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAK013/document.
Full textAll the talk about relativism points out the difficulties related to the Church in a more globalised world. The ecclesial institution is no longer in the heart of the social organization. The Church has to make a way for herself in the midst of a constellation of systems which are, at times, put in competition one with the other. That raises ineluctably a question about the Church. What can one say about Her ? The Bible does not frankly answer the question, except that it offers several metaphors that have been more or less successfully taken by theologians. They constitute as many ecclesial models. These various representations convey a certain image of the Church and what she stands for. No paradigm seems to carry a unanimous vote. However the brotherhood presents more advantages than the others. That is why we consider it to be the best expression of the Church. lt is from this point of view that we have formulated the problematic of our essay on "Brotherhood in Christ: theological bases of ecclesial being and its African incidence". While combining the structural dimension with the brotherly feelings, the theology of the brotherhood surpasses the dead ends linked only with the institution on one hand and the virtues of the other. It goes beyond the limits set by human traditions. Indeed Church-Fraternity is primarily factor of relations. It connects man to God and draws closer people one to another. This doctorate thesis is the deepening of the research I started while I registered for the Master programme. It deals with the criteria for recognition of true ecclesial characters, which is ecclesiality. For some, the Church is a heavy legal machine, without heart and soul that crushes everything in its path. She makes her weight felt. Otherwise she does not manifest any compassion to those who do not comply with her guidelines. This Church seems distant and indifferent to people and their concerns. For others, the Church manifests the ideal of community life between women and men who answered the call of Jesus, have submitted their will to Him and made themselves his disciples. This is the picture one can get from the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles. This primitive communism was the specificity of the nascent community of Jerusalem. Instead Jesus directs people to the knowledge of the Father and leads them into a filial relationship. It then clearly appears that people are brought into a changed relationship. This is the dimension of the adoptive filiation by which they are recognized God's children, sisters and brothers in Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, and brother and sister vis à-vis others. This fraternity embraces everyone. Indeed filiation or being a direct descendant of someone establishes henceforth a new relationship in Jesus Christ. This community of sisters and brothers is realized only in the Holy Spirit. The Church, as a Fellowship, differs from any other company, for its social cohesion is based on the Gospel
Ngondo, Dishono Kalala David. "Mystique africaine et mystique de saint Jean de la Croix : relecture du Colloque international de Kinshasa, 13-16 janvier 1992." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/45536.
Full textKabwit, Mbind Jean-Désiré. "Repenser la théologie du mariage africain : la célébration du mariage dit « chrétien », est-elle nécessaire en Afrique?" Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24790.
Full textThree types of marriage (African, civil, Christian), three celebrations (in family, at the town hall, the Church), three different officiants (old of the families of future grooms, registrar, priest), three consents (in family, at the town hall, the Church), three rights (usual, civil, canonical), two registers (with the town hall, the Church), three types of financial expenditure (in family, with the town hall, the Church), three premarital investigations (in family, at the town hall, the Church) for the same African catholic person baptized to be recognized as married by Catholic church. That seems too much to require for an action considered free par excellence. The baptized person is excluded, temporarily or definitively, of the access to the other sacraments or certain parochial services, as of the moment when it celebrates the African marriage, considered a public sin and as cohabitation, since the beginning of the evangelization of sub-Saharan Africa. Only the celebration of the Christian marriage enables him to be reconciled with God and the Church. Worried by this situation, the African episcopate called, with the Synod of 1994, with deepened research, being able to allow to avoid the superposition of the three types of marriage and expressed the wish to have some that one. Until today, the initiated solutions never cured it. Based on the basic conditions and of form, the celebrations of the church wedding in Quebec and the African marriage in democratic Republic of Congo produce civil effects. Our study was inspired some to propose a comprehension of the marriage based on the baptismal theology which incorporates the person in the Church, regenerates it as a child of God and configures it with Christ, by an indelible character. By this baptismal character legal, the celebration of the African marriage would produce religious effects, which would not make necessary the celebration of the marriage says “Christian” for baptized catholic African. For an implementation successful of this prospect, we consider essential the contribution of the civil capacity.