Christian Studies

Works by
Joseph Kenny, O.P.

Biblical & Liturgical

• The Psalms   A new translation, a new format, graphically displaying the symetrical pattern of the Psalms –with links to the Hebrew (revised August 2001).
• Daily Psalms and Canticles in their original languages   The Psalms and Canticles according to the arrangement of the Breviary, also in an indented format displaying the symmetrical pattern of these texts –with links to the English (revised August 2001).
              It is necessary to have True Type BibleWorks Hebrew and Greek fonts installed in your computer to read this. You may download the entire ensemble of web pages together with the fonts in "zip" compression by clicking on the following link: ttfonts.zip (699kb).
  
• The Psalms in Hausa; The Canticles in Hausa   The Psalms and Canticles in Hausa, a new (2001) translation by Musa Danjuma and Joseph Kenny, O.P. (the same who translated the Deuterocanonical books of the Bible published by the Bible Society), following the format of the Hebrew and English editions above. To read it, download the font Hausa.zip.
  
• St. Albert the Great's Commentary on the Psalms    Introduction and Psalms 1-5, 8, 23, 45, 51, 58, 72, 76, 110, 118, 130, 133, 136-138, 140, 142, 146-150 (Heb. numeration).
• Powerful titles of Jesus in the Bible   Like the great number of Muslim devotional works on the 99 names of God, this work is a complete Christology in prayer form, meditating on 101 names of Jesus in the Bible.
• Stations of the Passion and Resurrection   Fourteen of each, with Gospel summaries, Psalm verses and hymns. Meant to provide a solidly Biblical meditation, together with all the devotional impact of the familiar “Stations of the Cross”.
• Various hymns   for the Office and Mass.

Historical

• The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850 (Ibadan University Press & Dominican Publications, 1982)   For this middle period of African Christian history there is hardly anything in English except for a few specialized articles. The material is vast enough to write many detailed volumes. This general survey, with perhaps a little greater concentration on the Nigerian material has as its aim to present a factual account, telling all that is of interest, whether to the glory or the shame of the Church, with no apologetic tidying up of history.
• A seventeenth century Belgian visitor to Agadez and the north of Nigeria: Pieter Fardé   An expanded study of a person mentioned in Chapter 5 of the previous work, published in Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, 10:4 (1981), 73-89.
• A documentary history of the Catholic Church in Nigeria: 1445-1850   A companion volume to The Catholic Church in Tropical Africa 1445-1850, in contains 144 documents in their original languages, together with English translation.
• Church contextualization in Nigeria, 1970-1990   A reworking for publication of a paper given at the AECAWA Inter-Religious Dialogue Commission seminar at Ikeja, Lagos, April 1993, in collaboration with Segun A. Taiwo, O.P. and Paul Bola Oye, O.P.
• The Lives of the Brethren (Vitas Fratrum)   Translation of the 13^th century work of Gerald de Frachet on the early Dominicans.

Theological Essays

• The spiritualist heresy   Published in Skepticos, n. 5 (1995), 42-43.
• Prophets who attack tha Catholic Church   What to make of their "miracles". Published serially in Independent, newspaper of the Ibadan Archdiocese.