ABSTRACT
In A Christian View of Politics in Kenya, the Anglican Church, as part of the NCCK, had laid the theological groundwork for its assumption of the prophetic role, by which it meant the role that the ancient prophets had assumed in inveighing against the wrongs of the rulers in biblical times. Among other things, it argued that keeping silent about political abuses was itself a political act. In the mid-1980s it began to act on its prophetic ministry with increasing vigour, involving itself actively and persistently in more narrowly defined political issues.
