Natural law : in search of a common denominator : proceedings of 1st CUEA International Symposium 06-08 February 2007 / edited by Paul Chummar C.

Includes bibliographical references.

OPENING CEREMONY: WORD OF WELCOME, OPENING ADDRESS, KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- Word of welcome / John C. Maviiri -- Opening address / Alain Paul Lebeaupin -- Keynote address / Gerd Dieter Bossen -- PART ONE. AFRICAN AND POLITO-ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- The political thought of Thomas Aquinas / Jeffrey R. Adams -- The value of life in African culture / Joseph M. Nyasani -- Natura law ethics in Africa: has it a future: / Patrick Ryan -- PART TWO. PHILOSOPHICAL, PEDAGOGICAL, AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES -- The natural law in Jean-jacques Rousseau's philosophy and its social and pedogogical consequences / Piotr T. Nowakowski -- Multiculturalism, ethicity and natural law / Alexander Lucie-Smith -- Eros and the natural law / Denis Mason -- Natural law in civil law / Josphat M. Ayamunda -- PART THREE. BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES -- What can the creation of narratives contribute to reflection on the natural law in contemporary Africa? / Llance P. Nadeau -- The "World in front of the text: and the use of the Bible as norma normans in ethics / Jean-bosco Matand Bulembat -- PART FOUR. THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Natural law: the foundation for morally good actions and fullness of life / Paul Chummar C. -- The Trinity as basis for marital behaviour and sexual ethics / Charles Nyamiti -- Some brief remarks concerning ethical problems in Africa today in the light of the history of Catholic nautrual law-tradition and the present day discussion in Europe / Peter Hünermann -- Natural law and the meaning of personal existence in Fides et Ratio / Catherine Dean -- PART FIVE. CHRISTIAN, HINDU AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES -- Openness to transcendence / George Ndemo Osengo -- Meaning and mystery of human life: a Hindu interpretation / Augustine Thottakara -- The nature of natural law in Islam / Frederic Ntedika Mvumbi -- LAST BUT NOT LEAST. CLOSING ADDRESS, REMINISCENCES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL LAW IN NAIROBI, SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL LAW -- Closing address / Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana a Nzeki -- Reminiscences of the International Symposium on Natural Law in Nairobi / Piotr T. Nowakowski -- Some reflections on the International Symposium on Natural Law / Jeffrey R. Adams.