The Church’s Moral Obligation towards Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria
| dc.contributor.author | Olubitan, Adesina A. Ph.D | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adeyeye, Agnes O. Ph.D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-31T15:11:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-31T15:11:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In time past, the Church inherited a form of theology from the missionaries in which they failed to analyse the social impact and the significance of the major Christian themes for the transformation of the society. The Church then was totally separated from the culture of the society which prevented them from seeing anything good in what the society has to offer. What the Church believed then was that ‘worldly concerns are seen to be obstacles to the life of perfection’. However, as the world began to turn to a global village and members of the church seen to be the same set of people that constitute the society, the ‘syllabus’ of Christianity and the Church theology must begin to change. Therefore, this article prescribed a social mission for religious institutions that would challenge the status quo theologies that reduce the poor to apathy and merely promise paradise after death. It recommends that, the Church should change her behaviour towards the society by taking the challenge to carry the society’s cross, i.e. alleviation of poverty. The Church’s obligation to the poor therefore forms the basis of our discussion as we attempted an assessment of the Church and her obligations to the poor. The basis of our assessment, were highlighted in the arguments that follows under the concept of moral obligation. Our findings indicated that, instances abound in the bible and in history where God arises on behalf of the poor, hence using the bible as our basis; we argued that, theologically, the Church has an obligation to the poor. The research instrument of participatory-observation was used to interpret our data using historical and experiential methods. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | African Journal of Evangelical Theology | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1026-2946 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/5401 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Scott Christian University (SCU), Kenya | |
| dc.title | The Church’s Moral Obligation towards Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria | |
| dc.type | Article |