Spirit Beings

What is the influence and impact of this dominant religious belief in spirit beings upon the whole of traditional African life?

The Bible and Christian theology have to address this dominant influence and impact upon the traditional African life.

Traditional African concepts of reality and destiny are deeply rooted in the spirit world. The activities and the actions of the spirit beings govern all social and spiritual phenomena.

The spirit world can be divided into two broad categories: (1) non-human spirits and (2) the spirits of the dead.

Non-human spirits are regarded in hierarchical order in accordance with their kind and importance, depending upon their power and the role they play in the ontological order in the spirit world (Oji, 1988:17).

First in the hierarchy is the Creator, then the deities, object-embodied spirits, ancestors’ spirits and other miscellaneous spirits that are non-human, comprising both good or harmless spirits and evil spirits.

Man stands between this array of spiritual hosts in the spirit world and the world of nature (Ikenga-Metuh, 1987:125-144).

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