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Author(s)
Luke Emehiele Ijezie
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2021.02.004
Affiliation(s)
Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA), Port Harcourt, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The contemporary society,
despite its great achievements in the area of human development, remains
increasingly menaced by the syndrome of religious intolerance and religious
violence. Many theories may continue to be propounded for this syndrome, but
all of them gravitate around the fact of human abuse of religion expressed in
the perversion of the real purpose of religion. This essay argues that one of
the fundamental causes of religious violence is the misguided religious
consciousness that makes it difficult for people to reason properly on the
common challenges of our common humanity. Incidentally, both the biblical and
African approaches to religion can each be interpreted as having a basic
humanistic orientation. This becomes a challenge to African theology as it
faces the prevailing religious consciousness on the continent in search of
genuine humanism and authentic African development.
KEYWORDS
religion, humanism, peace, kingdom, love, human promotion
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