A Literary Study of the Bible and its Implications for Church Leadership & Transformation in Nigeria. (original) (raw)

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