“Jesus is not a Miracle-Worker” Understanding African Miracle Christianity and Healing Mission: A theo-socio- Christological appraisal Rev. Fr. Dr. Nicholas Ibeawuchi Mbogu,CMF Claretian Institute of Philosophy Maryland Nekede Owerri P.M.B 1019, Owerri awuchimbogu@hotmail.com or nikmbogu@gmail.com 1.Introduction A few things have disturbed my mind as a Nigerian Christian. Among this is a near demonization of Christianity as a religion based built and founded on the worship of the demon or put in a mild way, on exorcism. This has generated and raised the ministry of healing to a “supermarket synopsis” where all kinds of sicknesses and evils are sold. Many Catholic are queuing into the ministry and our gullible and ignorant Christians run to these centres for their own exploitation and confusion. A lot of the priests who are into the ministry claim unfathomable powers God never gave to any human or to his angels. More saddening is that some of the ‘charismatic priests’ remain out of the control of the ecclesiastical authorities and where such powers are used for what it supposed to be used for, the priests healers have either left the priesthood to find their own churches where they now operate as their own Lords and Saviors. Qui da Casu? This article examines some of the problems and offers some insights. 2. Jesus and African Christianity today If any single branch of theology should raise questions about the nature and practice of Christianity in Africa, it is definitely Christology. The reality of the incarnation itself places us already in a series of boundaries, namely, between the divine and the human, between the particular and the universal, between time and eternity. The questions raised for culture span the entire range of Christological discourse, from what significance Jesus’ having been born in a specific time and place might have, to the cultural and linguistic differences that plagued Christological controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries and the human community at large. Hence, Christology appears to be an excellent place to begin to see what Africans can contribute to theology by integrating their cultural belief systems into the Euro-Western