The Limits of a Divided Nation with Perspectives from the Bible

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Michael Udoekpo's work brilliantly and pastorally discusses the issues of conflict, friction, and disunity in the world--and in Nigeria in particular--from biblical, historical, and sociocultural perspectives. These issues, he stresses, are endemic in various fabrics of the Nigerian society, traceable to the family as the foundation of any given society. They are also found in religious, political, and media groups. Contributing factors, Udoekpo argues, are materialism, infidelity, relativism, and fundamentalism. Others are ethnocentrism, anthropocentricism, ignorance, bribery, and corruption with other forms of injustices. Drawing from the Bible, Udoekpo proposes prayer, proper education, truth-telling, restoration of family values, interreligious and cultural dialogue, ecumenism, enforcement of rule of law, faith, and absolute trust in God as antidotes to conflict, violence, friction, and disunity in our contemporary society.

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Michael Ufok Udoekpo is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies (OT), previously at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (201120), and has recently been appointed to the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, and Veritas Catholic University in Abuja, Nigeria. He has taught at St. Joseph Major Seminary in Ikot Ekpene. His several books include<b><i></i></b><i>Rethinking the Prophetic Critique of Worship in Amos</i><i>5</i> (2017) and<i>Israels Prophets and the Prophetic Effect of Pope Francis</i> (2018).<b><br><br></b>

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