Marriage In The Christian And Igbo Traditional Context

Author : Emmanuel Okonkwo
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage in the Christian and Igbo Traditional Context written by Emmanuel Okonkwo and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien. Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite? More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands. Contents: Concrete steps towards the inculturation of Christian sacramental and Igbo traditional marriage.

Author : Patrick Chukwudezie Chibuko
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igbo Christian Rite of Marriage written by Patrick Chukwudezie Chibuko and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems arising from the separate celebrations of traditional marriage and church wedding in the Igbo Church of Nigeria are the main objectives of the proposed Rite. The Igbo Christian man and woman require the traditional marriage and the church wedding to be considered as husband and wife. The important fact is that marriage for the Igbo people, even for some Christians among them, is the traditional marriage. In such traditional marriages today, experience shows that in addition to Christians and Non-christians, the clergy are very often present not only to grace the occasion by their presence, but also to say the opening prayer, prayer over the kola nuts, and sometimes also the closing prayer, and give the blessing. The obvious questions arising from these separate celebrations call for attention and review in the light of the on-going liturgical inculturation and the provisions made by the reformed liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. Is it then possible to evolve a unique Rite whereby the two celebrations can be validly and lawfully celebrated in one ceremony? Such a Rite would be required not only to be fully cultural and truly Christian but above all acceptable by both the culture and the church. The Igbo Christian Rite of Marriage is, therefore, a concrete proposal.

Author : Eugene E. Dike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Marriage and Family in Igboland written by Eugene E. Dike and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : MacJude Onyedikachi Ifeanyi Anatuanya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Traditional/Christian Marriage in Igboland (with Discussion Questions for Better Communication) written by MacJude Onyedikachi Ifeanyi Anatuanya and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyriacus S. N. Mba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolving an Igbo Christian Rite of Marriage written by Cyriacus S. N. Mba and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emmanuel Okonkwo
Publisher : Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage in the Christian and Igbo Traditional Context written by Emmanuel Okonkwo and published by Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite? More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands.

Author : Sylvester Oyeka
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504946952
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges of Christian Marriage in African Culture written by Sylvester Oyeka and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Challenges of Christian Marriage in Africa Culture is a reflection of Fr. Sylvester on the challenges encountered by Christian marriage in a communitarian African culture of kinship. While Christian marriage is a free decision of the couple involved, African marriage is a communitarian task, and thus, the decision of the community must take precedence. The contrast between Christian marriage and African marriage becomes a challenge to the Christian ideology of marriage. However, this book aims at a reconciliation between these marriages, where the moral values found in either marriage could be adopted for a sustainable marriage.

Author : Edwin Anaegboka Udoye
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364390116X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resolving the Prevailing Conflicts Between Christianity and African (Igbo) Traditional Religion Through Inculturation written by Edwin Anaegboka Udoye and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For not integrating initially some of the good elements in Igbo culture, many Igbo Christians have double personality - Christian personality and traditional personality. They are Christians on Sundays but traditionalists on weekdays. To combat such an anomalous situation, in imitation of Christ's effort at completing what was lacking in the Jewish religion, author Edwin Udoye proposes radical inculturation. His book equally contains many serious theological reflections such that it recommends itself to both theologians and the scholars researching on the religions of the world. Udoye has therefore made a very significant contribution worthy of commendation to both theological and religious studies.

Author : Augustus Chukwuma Izekwe
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832540377
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Christian Marriage among the Igbo vis-a-vis Childlessnes written by Augustus Chukwuma Izekwe and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage was ordained by God for the good of spouses and for procreation. But how often does marriage turn out to bring unhappiness to partners! And how often do even happy marriages end up childless! Among the Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria, to whom offspring is the chief goal of marriage, childlessness leads often to unhappiness in marriage and not less often to the break-up of marriages or to polygamy. In this work, the author expounds the importance of marriage and its practice among the Igbo. He explains the importance of children in Igbo understanding of marriage and identifies childlessness as the key factor which could endanger (and sometimes do endanger) the Igbo acceptance of the Catholic doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage. Using the relevant clauses of the Code of Canon Law, the author explains in detail the Catholic understanding of marriage and the goals of the catholic doctrine on marriage. He writes of the possibility of marriage impediments due to impotence and sterility (that lead to childlessness) and recommends not only a thorough pre-marriage preparation but also a continual formation of marriage couples as efforts that could check the increasing rate of divorce and polygamy due to childlessness. But the author knows that childlessness can still occur despite all precautions. He therefore recommends adoption (instead of polygamy) as the ultimate panacea to childlessness in marriage. The author condemns in unmistakable terms the mentality among the Igbo which blames and traumatizes the woman in cases of childlessness.

Author : Patrick Chukwudezie Chibuko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Marriage and Church Wedding in One Ceremony written by Patrick Chukwudezie Chibuko and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: