This article explores the questions: Is Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness compatible with Nigerian Christians’ strategies of preemptive violence or counter-violent responses in light of harms done to them by people of other faiths? Are there some Christological reasons that might motivate Nigerian Christians to refrain from using violence as the only effective means available to them to protect Christian communities against attacks from people of other faiths? To answer these questions, I will focus on three main issues. Firstly, I will discuss the theological rhetoric of some pastors that are shaping Christian discourse on Christian-Muslim and Christian-traditional religion relations. Secondly, I will discuss the idea of ‘disciple’ and ‘non-disciple’ dialectics in Jesus’ thought vis-a-vis how his followers are to live in relation to his non-followers. Finally, I will also discuss Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness, highlighting some of its theological implications for tackling religious violence that are rooted in some Nigerian Christians’ anxieties about other religious faiths.

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暴力基督徒、尼日利亚公共广场以及耶稣宽恕话语在解决宗教暴力方面的效用

本文探讨了以下问题：耶稣关于宽恕的教导是否与尼日利亚基督徒根据其他信仰的人对他们造成的伤害而采取的先发制人的暴力或反暴力反应的策略相容？是否有一些基督教的原因可能会促使尼日利亚基督徒避免使用暴力作为保护基督教社区免受其他信仰者攻击的唯一有效手段？为了回答这些问题，我将集中讨论三个主要问题。首先，我将讨论一些牧师的神学修辞，这些修辞正在塑造关于基督教与穆斯林和基督教与传统宗教关系的基督教话语。第二，我将讨论耶稣思想中“门徒”和“非门徒”辩证法的概念，以及他的追随者如何与非追随者相处。最后，我还将讨论耶稣关于宽恕的教导，强调其对解决源于一些尼日利亚基督徒对其他宗教信仰的焦虑的宗教暴力的一些神学意义。