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Christian Churches and Nigeria's Political Economy of Oil and Conflict - Head Work
by Author(s): Nkem Emerald Osuigwe
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• What are the underlying theological issues and beliefs of Nigerian evangelical Christians within the context of oil and conflict?
• What is their prevalent praxis within the context of Nigeria’s political economy of oil and conflict?
•How accurate is the received account that African evangelical and ‘fundamentalist’ Christianity lacks social responsibility and is a-political and anti-development?
• What would a contextual political theology for Nigeria’s political economy of oil look like?
The theological issues are varied and the prevalent praxis nuanced, which then serves as a veritable critique of the claim that African evangelical Christianity lacks social responsibility due to its preoccupation with soul-winning. Whereas such Christianity places much emphasis on the winning of souls as an expression of its spirituality, it is neither oblivious nor indifferent to its socio-political milieu. Rather it sees such spirituality as a form of political praxis. Some of the trajectories of the spirituality include a theology of conversion, a theology of prayer, and an ethics of crude oil, with Total Freedom as the nomenclature for the specific theological perspective offered for Nigeria’s political economy of oil. While locating this theological perspective within the taxonomy of Liberation Theology, the affinity and dissonance between the two are identified.
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