Nnadiebube Journal of Religion, Culture and Society

Theology as an academic enterprise is shaped by contexts and new circumstances of God’s people, which creates the platform for a relationship between God and His people. This piece focuses on the theology of migration, and by theology of migration it is meant a theological reflection on the issue of migration. It is a reflection that is based on the Christian spirituality. Theology supplies a way of thinking about migration that keeps the human issues at the center of the debate and reminds us that our own existence as a pilgrim people is migratory in nature. The question looming at the horizon of this research is: what has theology to say within the context of migration, which is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored? This piece will therefore go through the teachings of the Fathers of the Church, the Magisterium and Scripture to see what God is saying about the particular context of migrants, refugees and displaced persons of our time, and in this way, recast the migration issue theologically. For the purpose of this study, the historical and contextual methods of inquiry would be employed. This study discovered that the theological analysis of the complex issue of migration can bring about the restoration of the dignity of the human person.

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