Book Title Prognostic Analysis on Theology Education Ethics and Development (TEED): Festschrift in Honour of Rev. Msgr. Prof. Dr. Obiora Ike
Author Johnpaul Chudi Okolo
Publisher CIDJAP Press
Year of Publication 2016
Language English
ISBN 9785398218
9789785398212
No. of Pages 300
About this book

This festschrift in honour of Rev. Mons. Prof. Dr. Obiora lke contains sixteen chapters dealing with issues of theology, education, ethcs and development. Contributions: A life for justice & peace: a laudatio for Monsignor Obiora lke (Ikechukwu J. Ani).


1. The future of our Christianity (Theophilus Okere);
2. Justice for the poor and needy: a weighty matter in religion (Marysylvia Nwachukwu);
3. The state and religion in Nigeria: towards an appropriate relationship in the 21st century (Michael O. Maduagwu);
4. Dealing with the recent epidemic of prophecies in Nigeria: towards a theology of prophetism (Ancke Anthony Anayochukwu);
5. Internalizing the preferential option for the poor frorn the perspectives of Catholic social teaching and liberation theology: lessons for Catholic schools in Nigeria (Maria Ugonna R. Igbo).


6. Nigeria higher education: regulatory imperatives for the pursuit of excellence (Bartholomew Ndubuisi Okolo);
7. The denigrated place of teachers in Nigeria - the bleak future of education and national development (Okechukwu Chukwuemeka & Okolo Johnpaul);
8. Female genital cutting and the role of religious education in Igboland (Leonard Chidi llechukwu);
9. Toward nurturing (pedagogy) education for democratic growth in Nigeria (Felix Ugwuozor);
10. The imperatives for healthy education and integral development (Chinedu L. Egbo); Perennialism and its effect on Nigerian education system in the light of Mortimer - Adler (Chukwu Ikechukwu Onyekachukwu).


12. Challenges on global poverty and global health - from millennium development goals (MDGs) to sustainable development goals (SDGs), lessons from the perspective of Christian social ethics (Obiora Ike);
13. The impact of ethics in business development: the Nigerian situation (Stanley Emi);

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