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THE BOOK OF PROVERBS AND ITS MESSAGE  TO THE WORLD TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION What is Proverb? Authorship of the Book of Proverbs Aim/Purpose of the Book of Proverbs CHAPTER TWO NATURE AND CONTENT OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS Literary Features Of the Book Of Proverbs Repetition Synonyms Other Literary Features Poetic Feature of the Book Parallelism Personification CHAPTER THREE MESSAGE OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS Fear of God And Wisdom Wisdom And Parents Prudence In Speaking And Diligence In Action Respect And Obedience Humanity And The Worl d RELEVANCE OF THE MESSAGE TO THE MODERN AGE Fear Of God Proverbs Advises The Modern Humanity Gossip: Weapon Of Mass Destruction CHAPTER FOUR RELATIONSHIP OF THE MESSAGE OF PROVERBS TO THE IGBO CULTURE The African World Rapped In Proverbial Teachings Proverbs: An Aid To African Life CHAPTER FOUR  CONCLUSION CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  The book of proverb...

INTRODUCTION Most non-Catholics and even Catholics often ask such question: “where is it in the Bible?” This is a pertinent question, but in most cases the argument rests on the fact that not everything is written in the Bible. However, in the case of the seven sacraments of Christianity, the answer will take a different dimension because the non existence of the word “sacrament” in the Bible does not immediately conclude that it is totally absent in the bible. Coherently, the task of this essay is to first establish that evidence of the seven sacraments is possible in the Bible. Then, secondly, to demonstrate that sacraments in general are fundamental to God’s salvific plan for the world. UNDERSTANDINGS OF SACRAMENTS One cannot just delve into the question of where sacrament can be located in the scripture without first of all making sense of what this concept is. It is simply a reality that makes possible and present another reality different from it, just like a sign. I...

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Nature Of The Joannine Letters 1.2 Purpose Of 1John 2. MEANING OF THE TERM “ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ” 2.1 Κοινωνια In The New Testament 3. THEOLOGY OF USE OF ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ IN 1JOHN 3.1 Κοινωνία With God And Christ 3.2 Κοινωνία And The Light 3.3 Κοινωνια In The Community Of The Faithful 4. EVALUATION 5. CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. NTRODUCTION Paging through the New Testament section of the Scripture, one discovers that there are certain words that so basic and significant such that to understand a good number of the books of the bible, there is need observe such words contextually with a critical and exegetical theological telescope. One of such kind of words is Greek word “κοινωνια”. The fundamental interest of this easy is a focus on this Greek word and the theological implications in the first letter of John. 1.1 Nature Of The Joannine Letters One may not understand the significance and use of the term κοινωνια in the 1st e...

INTRODUCTION Generally, four Gospels were accepted into the Church’s Scriptural canon and among them, three were considered to be synoptic in the sense that they bear great resemblance. The Gospel of Luke is among these. In this essay, much concentration will be focused on the preface or prelude of Luke to this Gospel, that states: (Lk. 1,3). There is always the tendency to sideline author’s prelude of preface to books or skip them as just tips. The Lucan Gospel preface is an exception because this preface is the substratum on which his entire gospel account stands. GENERAL NATURE OF LUKE’S GOSPEL The numerical position which Luke occupies in the Sacred Canon, supplies a sure key to its interpretation. It is the third book in the New Testament, and the forty-second in the Bible as a whole. Each of these numbers is profoundly significant and suggestive in this connection. Luke is the only Gospel writer who begins with such a preface. Other synoptic Gospels, Matthew and M...