"CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE: ENVISIONING ST. BASIL’S LEADERSHIP FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGIES IN GOVERNANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
| dc.contributor.author | OLUBITAN, Adesina Abiodun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-27T14:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-27T14:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Contemporary analytic economic science has consistently search for ways out in the fight against endemic poverty that has continued to plague Nigeria as a nation, and Africa at large. This accentuates the various intervention programmes being marshalled toward tackling this lingering phenomenon. It is obvious that, Africa in the 21st century needs a sporadic transformational development and national prosperity which can only be conceptualized in good governance and visionary leaders. Stemming from this understanding, Christianity, has contributed greatly in changing socio-economic landscape of Nigeria as a nation. Hence, this paper beams its searchlight into the patristic period in order to articulate poverty alleviation strategies in the light of the 21st century. What can be learnt from a fourth-century leader and Bishop concerning the lingering poverty situation of our day? Could a pre-modern church father provide contemporary analyst the framework for socio-economic change and governance? These research questions shall modulate the direction of this work. To this end, the historical and analytical research methods are employed in this paper. Our findings however, crystallized a clear vision of poverty alleviation in the founding of St. Basil the Great’s Basileias and the contribution that Christian doctrine and practice might make in catalyzing the poor out of the throes of poverty and how this can be envisioned or retrieved to help governance in Nigeria in the 21st century in order to actualize socio-economic change. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.integhumanitatis.com/product/christianity-and-socio-economic-change-envisioning-st-basils-leadership-for-poverty-alleviation-strategies-in-governance-in-the-21st-century-by-olubitan-a-abiodun-ph-d/ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4472 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Humanitatis Theoreticus (H.T) Journal, University of Yaounde, Cameroun | |
| dc.title | "CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE: ENVISIONING ST. BASIL’S LEADERSHIP FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION STRATEGIES IN GOVERNANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. |