ABSTRACT
Daniel Arap Moi was inaugurated President of Kenya in November 1978, three months after Kenyatta's death on 22 August. In the course of his presidency, the Church moved from being a somewhat ambiguous and ambivalent mediative agent to being a vocal and active opposition to the state's tyranny. The transition was a gradual one, unanticipated and inadvertently abetted by the state, and accompanied and supported by the formulation of a new theology which laid out the Church's prophetic role.
