THE CODE OF CANON LAW AND THE SCRIPTURE: AN IGWEBUIKE PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
The purpose of the canon law is to help Catholics live well as Christians in line with the teachings of the Holy Bible. This piece studies the relationship between the canon law and the Scripture. It adopts Igwebuike as an Igbo-African philosophy for a complementary relationship between these two disciplines of the Church and their unique contributions to the development of Igwebuike philosophy. It is employed as a transcendent complementary comprehensive systematic quest to penetrate the structure and dynamics of reality ultimately for the purpose of giving honest answers to fundamental questions or opinions to questions that arise within the arena of asking questions and questioning answers, and seless enlightenment. In this search for truth, Igwebuike is, therefore, understood as an integrated systematic framework that strives beyond all forms of particularities, peculiarities, paradoxes and contradictions, and espouses the path of complementation, therefore, showing how realities can relate to one another in a mutually harmonized non-absolutistic mode. This piece discovers that there is a very strong connection between the Code of Canon Law and the Scripture, and that the two, when studied together, can be very enriching.
