The eucharist and Igbo communal spirit

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Every theology has its context. But every socio-cultural context requires a living theology, if theology has to be meaningful to the people it adrsses, within it, with the message of salvation. This work has successfully shown that theology ought neither to be irrelevant to the people for them with unintelligible views from alien stance. Thus, revelation and culture must have a meeting point. This ist demonstrated here from the perspectives of the Eucharist as communio an the Igbo penchant for community life. Having identified communio as the hallmark of the Eucharist, on the one hand, and as the most outstanding of the lineaments of Igbo culture, on the other, this work sees communio, in its diverse understandings, as a favourable point of anchorage between Christianity and Igbo culture. Indeed, it is a genuine piece on theological inculturation, faithful to the Christian revelation an true to the author's cultural root.