Bücher von Peter Chidi Okuma

About the Book Postmodernity brought with it a culture of ¿sensation.¿ And with this new culture of postmodernity comes the new challenges to the human person and his/her Sitz-im-Leben: in Information-computer-technology, politics, social, moral, religious, ethical, cultural and social milieus etc. In the midst of these ¿senses and insensibilities¿ of our time ¿ what really matter ¿ what should really matter this time around for humans? These and more are part and parcel of the packaging in this mini-compendium by this writer.

The author analyses how faith can answer to the concrete life-situation of a people via an hermeneutics which is based on the Resurrection of Christ. In particular, this book investigates theology answering to the life-situation of Africans, the Igbo.

This book investigates the theories of poverty and world poverty in particular through the purview of Jeffery Sachs. Through a combination of Christian Metannarrative hermeneutics and the Mother Teresa of Calcutta model, the author discovered that it is necessary to go beyond witnessing today in order to make true and lasting impact on the lives of humans.

What does this mean for the mission of the Church in all spheres of life? What is the implication of this for the Laity in the world today? This book focuses on these concrete questions to the more fundamental theological question of the role of the Laity in the mission of the Church.