ABSTRACT

This paper has most consciously directed its search (research) attention and curiosity towards and through the key word-compositional ties. This paper is a careful look through the Igbo religious-cultural-cosmological-linguistic loops that symbolize and signify the Igbo daily affairs of greeting and salutation codes. The said greeting codes are common, general, particular and peculiar to Ndi Igbo (the Igbo race). When this paper speaks from the 'universal essence of God in Igbo and Christian thoughts', it wishes to establish the common dividends, truth-conditions and criteria, through which the 'Igbo Chi'- and the 'Christian/Chris'- thoughts, build and exist on common intellectual and theological adequacies. The propositions of this paper stand on the common platforms of Christian faith and the Igbo 'Chi- logical Christian-use conditionality and constitutions. The practical approach to the issues of this paper will be presented as diptyches and 'symbolic forms' for the relational common faith-appreciations of Chi- and ChristChristianity. This paper stands to present as 'true' the fact that 'Chi is Christ' and 'Christ is Chi'.