Pathways to Peacebuilding

Staurocentric Theology in Nigeria's Context of Acute Violence

Uchenna D. Anyanwu

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781666798340
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Teologia cristiana

Given the consistent challenge of Islamist acute violence, particularly in Nigeria, this monograph attempts to respond to the question: How can Jesus's followers pattern response to violence after Jesus's model demonstrated in his triumph over death, evil, sin, and violence through staurocentric pathways? And how can Jesus's followers in Nigeria adopt the same staurocentric model in order to not only overcome acute violence within the country but also to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric forgiveness, hospitality, and other practices toward Muslims? In this study, I posit that peacebuilding contextual theology be grounded on the mystery of the cross (???????-stauros)--a theologico-theoretical framework that the church in Nigeria should espouse in order to position herself to extend hands, heads, hearts, and homes of staurocentric practices, whose appropriation must be undertaken through constructive and critical integration of the God-given African peacebuilding concepts autochthonous to Africa's mosaic cultural contexts. The pivotal thesis is that the staurocentric model remains the triune God's instrument for triumphing over violence, and thus should be espoused by Jesus's followers in every era and context for peacebuilding in contexts of violence through a triadic constructive and critical integration of indigenous peacebuilding concepts.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: An Overview of Nigeria’s Political and Religious Histories
• Chapter 3: Contextual Theology and Nonviolence Peacebuilding Ethics
• Chapter 4: Peacebuilding Concepts from Islamic and Muslim Perspectives
• Chapter 5: African Concepts for Peacebuilding-Contextual Theology
• Chapter 6: Peacebuilding Concepts from Nigeria’s Ethnolinguistic Cultures
• Chapter 7: Staurocentric Pathways to Peacebuilding-Contextual Theology
• Chapter 8: Peacebuilding Carrefour
• Reference List