For many years in the history of humans, there had been conflicting views
of the relationship between religion and secularity. Some adherents decry the
fact that religion should have any relation with the secular because religion
is entirely metaphysical while secularity relates to mundane things. In modern
scholarship, this issue has continued to engage the attention of scholars, practioners
of religion, individuals and the general public. Religion has both negative and
positive dimensions. It is God’s gift to humans to be utilized for the
betterment of the human society. Religion is also a veritable tool to advance
the course of secularity in the world to accomplish God’s purpose of creation.
Hence this paper examines the modern man as a religionist in relation to the secular
world where he lives and fulfils his destiny. In an attempt to achieve this
objective, the New Testament perspective of the relationship between religion
and secularity is what this paper tried to achieve so as to strengthen the fact
that a Christian cannot be totally independent from the secular world where he
lives and fulfils his purpose in life. In Pauline theology on religion and secularity,
Christian has a vital role to play in bringing sanity to the secular world
where he belongs by putting into practice the tenets of his faith so also, it
is expected that he enjoys maximally certain amenities and privileges which are
provided by the secular world. It is obvious that one cannot do without the
other.
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Igbari, V. D. S. (2016). Religion and Secularity: The New Testament Perspective. Open Access Library Journal, 3, e2573. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1102573.
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