The problem of Christian ethics among the Igbo of Nigeria

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Title:	The problem of Christian ethics among the Igbo of Nigeria
Author:	Ilogu, E.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	Ikenga: Journal of African Studies
Volume:	3
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	38-52
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	ethics Christianity Igbo
Abstract:	An effort is made here to show what Christian ethics contend with in the attempt to become relevant to the Nigerian situation as seen through the study of the Igbo. Main concerns is to examine Christian ethics in the light of Igbo traditional ethical attitudes, concepts and practices so as to indicate what impulses and attitudes influence an Igbo who becomes Christian, and by deduction many other Nigerian or other African Christians in their daily behaviour as members of the Church and citizens of a country undergoing rapid social change. The aim of this kind of study is to create a point of contact and understanding from which not only the weaknesses of traditional morality in the light of Christian ethics could be appreciated but also the inadequate approach of the Christian Churches in the moral education of their adherents by neglecting the social and ethical milieu in which their converts lived before conversion and in which cultural setting they continue to live today. Notes.