Gatete, Godfrey2024-02-132023-01-262024-02-132022-11https://repo.pacuniversity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/3652.3his thesis is about a biblical restorative and retributive justice with reference to the church and state conflict resolution approach, according to 1 Corinthians 6:1-11. It seeks to identify biblical principles in 1 Corinthians 6: 1 – 11 that define the restorative and retributive justice approach to address conflicts and divisions within the church and the community. The study has two objectives, namely, to conduct an exegetical deductive study of 1 Corinthians 6: 1-11 and to set biblical guidelines that define the complementarity of the restorative justice with the retributive justice. In this thesis, the researcher argues that Paul’s model of church conflict resolution, as found in 1Corinthians 6:1-11, is appropriate for adopting the complementarity of the state retributive judicial justice system with the restorative justice approach. The study deductively analyses the text of 1 Corinthians 6: 1- 11 to suggest judiciary principles that can address the conflicts destroying the spiritual and social life of both the church and state. This uniquely offers a biblical retributive and restorative “Gacaca”, justice informed by biblical principles from the deductive exegetical analysis of 1 Corinthians 6: 1- 11. The study employs historical grammatical criticism method with some aspects from Socio-scientific criticism to understand the original message of the text in its ancient Jewish, Greco-Roman world context. Based on these methods, the study brings out underlying biblical principles used to resolve conflicts and divisions within the church and state. Accordingly, the study makes three recommendations, namely (1) conflict between two believers should be handled by the wise church members; (2) the concept of conflict resolution and management model and provision of retributive and restorative justice according to 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 is applicable and should be adopted to the church and state justice system; and (3) the church should intentionally disciple members to maturity from whom wise believers are identified and appointed to serve. These wise believers serve to administer equitable retributive and restorative justice to church members, based on biblical principles as derived from 1 Corinthians 6: 1- 11.This leads to the “Biblical Gacaca”, a judiciary system that embodies the retributive and restorative justice in the church and stateenbiblical restorationretributive justicestate conflict resolutionRwandan caseRwandan caseThesis