David K Tarus
David Kirwa Tarus currently serves as Executive Director, Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA), a project of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa. Previously, he served as a lecturer and Deputy Principal at AIC Missionary College, an affiliate institution of Scott Christian University. David is a graduate of McMaster Divinity College (Ph.D. in Christian Theology), Wheaton College Graduate School (MA, Historical and Systematic Theology), and Scott Christian University (Bachelor of Theology). He is the author of A Different Way of Being: Toward a Reformed Theology of Ethnopolitical Cohesion for the Kenyan Context (Langham), co-editor of Christian Responses to Terrorism: The Kenyan Experience (Wipf & Stock), and many articles. His research interests are theological anthropology, ecclesiology, and social issues. He is an ordained minister of the Africa Inland Church, Kenya.
Supervisors: Steven Studebaker and Gordon Heath
Address: Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa,
AEA Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya,
P.O. Box 49332-00100
Nairobi
Supervisors: Steven Studebaker and Gordon Heath
Address: Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa,
AEA Plaza, Nairobi, Kenya,
P.O. Box 49332-00100
Nairobi
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That failure may have contributed to the Church’s impotence in dealing with social ills that continue to ravage African countries. For Kenya, it is that of tribalism. The sin of tribalism is rooted in misplaced shame, and quest for identity or honor. Unfortunately, theological thinking as is of today, has been unable to address the power of shame, desire for honor and quest for identity. For example, the evangelical church has turned a blind eye on tribalism with the hope that the mission of the Church will continue without being too much compromised. However, the underlying worldview issues and values of honor and shame have been left unaddressed. In the event of a national exercise such as an election, raw emotions are stirred, ethnic tensions rise, which immediately polarize people according to their ethnicities. Sadly, the church has previously been tagged along, if not fueled the tension.
Firstly, this workshop paper seeks to trace the explicit ‘from shame to honor’ themes that were implicit in the pioneers’ identity theology. Secondly, the paper will identify various ways that misplaced identity has contributed to negative ethnicity in Kenya. Lastly, through a case study the paper will attempt to mainstream a biblical missiology that addresses the values of honor and shame as foundational for the gospel to confront and address tribalism in Kenya.