CHI N’EYE NDU: UNDERSTANDING GOD IN AN IGBO-AFRICAN CATEGORY

Abstract

This work is an attempt to understand God in Igbo-African category. As a thesis, it has gone beyond proving that the African can know or concieve God, and moved from the wider parameters of theology to the particular aperture of Christological investigation. It investigates the possibility of an understanding of the Christ-God within an African category. The idea employed here is that of an Igbo-African. This concept is very significant because the Igbo race shares in the African worldview, and the interactive nature of the African worldview, makes this consideration more relevant. This Christological perspectives constructed from the Igbo worldview creates a socio-political context, as theology is meant for a community and not to remain the property of a theologian class. It responds to the question: “how will Christ and his message be presented to the Igbo person, in such a way that he or she would understand and appreciate Jesus within categories that he or she is at home with?”