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Peter Nyende and his passion for the Kingdom of God
Dr. Peter Nyende is the head of department of Biblical Studies and a lecturer in New Testament. He is passionate about a more reflective African Christianity. Dr. Nyende finds that in Africa, there can too much energy with too little reflection, which is the main reason why Dr. Nyende is involved in teaching and ministry work.
Dr. Nyende what is your teaching philosophy?
I believe that teaching is not just about passing information to students. Teaching is more about broadening knowledge and deepening insight. In addition to providing information, teaching is about inculcating proper attitudes towards a subject and about facilitating skills relevant to a particular discipline. In other words, the product of teaching should be subject-matter learning, healthy attitudes towards the subject, and growth of skills relevant to the discipline of the subject matter.
What are your current areas of research?
Academically, my area of research is hermeneutics. I focus on the use and interpretation of the Old Testament in the New Testament and have often premised my work variously on Jewish hermeneutical practices, typology, prophesy, intertextuality, sensus plenior, but rarely have they been based tendetiously on modern principles of Bible application and in particular that of correspodence between initial, past and contemporary biblical contexts. In my current study, I hope to demonstrate that attending to the modern principle of Bible application via a correlation between intial and contemporary contexts of Bible texts could offer us a significantly valuable resource to aid our understanding of how the Old Testament is interpreted in the New and, in particular, how some Old Testaments texts are understood to be fulfilled in the gospels. The completion of this research will be in June 2010.
For the church, I am developing a Bible study book on “The Kingdom of God” which shall be used by Bible study groups of the Nairobi Baptist Church and subsequently by other churches in Kenya for a systematic and deeper understanding of the subject.
Have you published any books recently?
I have written a book called “A Handbook on Leading Sunday Worship Services”. The book was published in 2008 by the Uzima Publishing House. My handbook on leading Sunday worship services was passed by the synod of the Anglican Church of Kenya in 2008 as the official ACK handbook on leading worship.
Are you involved in any ministry work?
I am an attached clergy at the Anglican Church of Kenya’s Christ Church Parish in Westlands, Nairobi. I am also a board member of the Church Army Society. Church Army is an Anglican society for evangelism, whose mission is to enable the Anglican Church in Africa to evangelize Africa. I am also a member of the Anglican Church of Kenya’s liturgy committee.
Given an opportunity, what would you change in the world?
Problems that the world experiences can be traced to humanity; the greatest battle is to have moral beings. I would change people and make them moral beings and hence bring God’s kingdom to completion.
What is your word of encouragement to the members of the NEGST community?
Nothing escapes the eye of the Lord; our labors for him are not in vain.
Dr. Nyende pursued his Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies at Daystar University. He holds a higher diploma in Theology from Carlile College of Theology, a Master’s in Pastoral Theology from Ridley Hall Cambridge, a Master’s of Theology in New Testament Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in New Testament from the University of Edinburgh.
The Nyendes have been at NEGST since 2007. Dr. Peter Nyende is married to Josephine Nyende; they are blessed with a son named Brodie Nyende.
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