CONSECRATED PERSONS AND SOCIAL CONCERNS OF EVANGELIZATION VIS-À-VIS THE FAMILY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

In Nigeria, we live in a period with so many social concerns affecting the families of today. In these precarious moments, one cannot but think out ways through which Consecrated Persons as “agents of evangelization†could contribute to the improvement of the social conditions of families in the society. Evangelization today cannot flourish independently of the social concerns of humanity. There is a need to bring into the general purview of evangelization the social concerns affecting the families of today. In fact, we cannot talk of any holistic form of evangelization done outside the contextual realities in which we are in today. What it implies is that, any form of evangelization must be able to embrace the whole of realities affecting those to be evangelized, social, political, economical and religious realities. Thus, a systematic study of the effective ways through which Consecrated Persons can be part of the social dimension of evangelization in relation to some social concerns of family was carried out with the write up “Consecrated Persons and Social Concerns of Evangelization vis-à-vis the Family in Nigeriaâ€.