Religion, Spirituality and Apocalyptic Dystopia: Socio-Rhetorical Re-Reading of Jeremiah (30:7) in Dialectical Assessment of Nigeria’s Socio-Political Dilemma
The dilemma in Nigeria’s socio-political development over the decades has been widespread religious affinities and spirituality. In the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious environment, her predominantly Christian adherence finds itself encountering more of this dilemma. This article use...
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2023
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2023, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 490-511 |
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Eschatology
/ Dilemma
/ End of the world
/ Anti-Utopian
/ Synthesis
/ Bible. Jeremia 30,7-9
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBQ Eschatology |
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| Summary: | The dilemma in Nigeria’s socio-political development over the decades has been widespread religious affinities and spirituality. In the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious environment, her predominantly Christian adherence finds itself encountering more of this dilemma. This article uses Hegelian dialectics and socio-rhetorical lenses to assess Nigeria’s socio-political dilemma based on Jer. 30:7. Its findings include a dissonance between religious piety and theo-praxis which crystallises into a complacency evoking an apocalypticism devoid of utopia, and which is unable to provoke a thesis or anti-thesis that could give birth to a new synthesis. It recommends a pendulum shift from mere Christian religious pietism to a religious involvement of the churches in socio-political action that could provide the needed thesis and anti-thesis for a renewed socio-political synthesis. To do so, however, it must retain the apocalyptic component of the Christian faith while actively engaged in religious cum socio-political action. https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2023/v36n2a11 |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17159/2312-3621/2023/v36n2a11 |