DOCTRINAL SUPREMACY COUNTERCLAIMS OF LIVING FAITHS; THE CASE OF CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN THE RELIGIOUSLY PLURALIZED NIGERIA AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
Nigeria as a religiously pluralized country is being bedeviled by her religious plurality. Many socio-economic challenges confronting the country today can be blamed on her religious diversity. This unfortunate development is however as a result of the seemingly unending rivalry, which this paper suspects is occasioned partly by the attitude of doctrinal supremacy claims and counterclaims between the two major religions (Christianity and Islam) in the country. The perennial controversies of doctrinal supremacy claims and counterclaims between these proselytizing religions constitute serious impediment to the possibility of a peaceful interfaith relationship, the development which set the stage for incessant religious tension has constitutes a cog in the wheel of sustainable development in the country. This paper therefore aims to investigate the influence of doctrinal supremacy counterclaims of these received religions on interfaith relationship in Nigeria, and its implications on sustainable development. This paper explores the various conflicting points of doctrinal supremacy claims and counterclaims of the two religions, it focuses attention on the influence of doctrinal supremacy counterclaims on interfaith relationship in order to bring to focus, the implication of interfaith tension on sustainable development. Because of the historical nature of inter-religious relation in Nigeria, the historical and descriptive approach is employed in the analysis, and the secondary method was used to elicit information. The paper established that doctrinal supremacy claims and counterclaims is a precipitate of religious rancor which interdicts sustainable development in Nigeria. It therefore recommends that adherents of different religious faiths in Nigeria eschew the proclivities of doctrinal fanaticism in order to give way for peaceful interfaith relationship and meaningful sustainable development.
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