The Igbo Spiritual Worldview and the Concept of a Supreme God: A Critical discourse
EXTRACT: Since the advent of Christianity in Igbo land, a host of names have been used as either a direct translation or transliteration of what the indigenes were presented with as God. Cheching these names, topmost among them is Chineke but following the Igbo cosmology one will come to believe that neither Chineke nor Chukwu comes close to the the Christian concept of God hence an urgent need for a new search for a name for the Christian God in Igbo language. Follow us as we go through this presenting reasons for our position. CHINEKE IN IGBO SPIRITUALISM: The Igbo word Chineke came to be as a combination of two divine forces in Igbo spiritual world. These entities are CHI and EKE. In Igbo cosmology, CHI is the life force and the reincarnating force of a human being. Each person in Igbo land has his own personal CHI. The Chi is the person who reincarnated in a human being. The Igbos believe that each has reincarnated several times and in each of the reincarnation pays a karmic debt