LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Literary Study of the Bible and its Implications for Church Leadership and Social Transformation in Nigeria

Mark Ighile, Ph.D. and Daniel Olowookere

Abstract

Beyond the doctrinal and theological construct of the Bible, lies its literary, aesthetic and sociological value. It is also not in dispute that the devotion to the sacredness of the biblical text has placed great restraint on the much needed attention to a proper socio-literary critique of the narrative. In contextualising the Nigerian church, and by implication, assessing and re-assessing the state and practice of leadership in the country, from the traditional to the modern, this study attempts a foregrounding of the literariness of the Bible within the conceptual framework of post modernism, and submits that the Bible, in its truest socio-literary realization, and indeed the church in Nigeria, have a lot to offer in terms of leadership re-engineering and social transformation.

Keywords: Literature, Bible, Leadership and Church

Introduction

As a way of creating a prefatory base for this study, there is need for some clarifications and definition of terms. Literature in this context is appreciated principally as an aesthetic tool of social engineering. Our concern therefore, is to see how the literary features of the Bible have implications for leadership and social revival. The argument is that the Bible has artistic and sacred characteristics that are transformational in nature. In addition, the Church in used interchangeably with the following concepts; The body of Christ, which is the church universal, Christianity, which is the religion of the church, the pulpit, which is the creative platform of influence of the church, the Bible, which is the symbolic instrument of the religion of the church and the individual that makes up the church.

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Mark Ighile, Ph.D.
Redeemer’s University, Mowe
Nigeria
mighile@gmail.com

Daniel Olowookere
University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Nigeria
segun.daniel21@gmail.com
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