Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_Jose_Soares_Jesus.pdf: 679365 bytes, checksum: 5b7c0bbef2895cf795f50c452820278f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-27 / The Catholic Charismatic Renewal has an outstanding presence in the Brazilian Catholicism during the century XX. It is an ecclesial movement that led to several deployments in the configuration of the Catholicism after the Council Vatican II. RCC became elaboration space and of encounter of the religious identity for many Catholic. This research seeks to understand how this phenomenon takes place from the typological concept of "Convert" proposed by Danièle Hervieu-Léger. In this course concerning subjects are approached RCC, going by his/her initial shock with the plurality of the Catholicism transformer sketched by CEBs, besides the institutional Catholicism, and with the Catholicism very strong devocional in Brazil, for his/her appearance and expansion, with prominence for the significance of the coming of the New Communities inside RCC, as well as of the relationship among the characteristics of elaboration of the religious identity, cultivated in RCC and the modernity. The methodology used is preponderantly bibliographic, coupled with the handling of questionnaires that were applied between members of the RCC. / A Renovação Carismática Católica tem uma presença marcante no catolicismo brasileiro durante o século XX. Trata-se de um movimento eclesial que provocou diversos desdobramentos na configuração do catolicismo depois do Concílio Vaticano II. A RCC se tornou espaço de elaboração e de encontro da identidade religiosa para muitos católicos. Esta pesquisa procura entender como se processou esse fenômeno a partir do conceito tipológico de Convertido proposto por Danièle Hervieu-Léger. Neste percurso abordam-se questões concernentes à RCC, passando pelo seu embate inicial com a pluralidade do catolicismo transformador esboçado pelas CEBs, além do catolicismo institucional, e com o catolicismo devocional muito forte no Brasil, pelo seu surgimento e expansão, com destaque para a significação do advento das Novas Comunidades no interior da RCC, bem como da relação entre as características de elaboração da identidade religiosa, cultivada na RCC e a modernidade. A metodologia usada é preponderantemente bibliográfica, conjugada com o manuseio de questionários que foram aplicados entre membros da RCC.

The study explores the hypothesis that the New Testament contains a model of church planting that could assist in rural church planting. After reflecting on the ministry of Jesus as portrayed by Mark, the study continues to unpack the Base Christian Community model that emanates from the Brazilian context, before it proceeds to outline the socio-economic background of first-century Palestine. In the main chapter the text, namely Mark 1:35-45, is reflected on against the socio-economic background and through the grid of the Ecclesial Base Community (CEB) model. Having done the above the study concludes that people gravitate towards an individual (as seen in the case of Jesus) who promises an alternative to their experienced reality. This begins a community, which, for the purposes of this study, is the church. Thus, the pattern of developments that led to the emergence of the church after the Crucifixion provides us with a church-planting model. / New Testament / Thesis (M.Th.)

“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality, I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

In my diploma thesis I deal with the problematic of people with hearing impairment. I introduce Deaf culture to Czech theological reflection and then concrete Christian communities in the Czech Republic, where deaf people gather. I analyze specifics of these communities, what is the role of the deaf people and using of sign language. I end up with theological reflection from the perspective of people with disabilities and then I introduce specifics of theology from the perspective of the Deaf. Keywords Hearing Impairment, Deaf culture, Deaf studies, Disability Theology, Deaf Christian Communities, Deaf Theology

The study explores the hypothesis that the New Testament contains a model of church planting that could assist in rural church planting. After reflecting on the ministry of Jesus as portrayed by Mark, the study continues to unpack the Base Christian Community model that emanates from the Brazilian context, before it proceeds to outline the socio-economic background of first-century Palestine. In the main chapter the text, namely Mark 1:35-45, is reflected on against the socio-economic background and through the grid of the Ecclesial Base Community (CEB) model. Having done the above the study concludes that people gravitate towards an individual (as seen in the case of Jesus) who promises an alternative to their experienced reality. This begins a community, which, for the purposes of this study, is the church. Thus, the pattern of developments that led to the emergence of the church after the Crucifixion provides us with a church-planting model. / New Testament / Thesis (M.Th.)

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo comparar a teologia do evangelho de Marcos com a neopentecostal. Enquanto a teologia marcana é interpretada como antitriunfalista, conduzindo as comunidades a perceberem o Cristo da cruz, o movimento neopentecostal faz o caminho oposto. Sua ênfase é o caminho triunfalista/sem cruz. Num primeiro momento, será abordado o ambiente das primeiras comunidades cristãs, que surgiram após a paixão, morte e ressurreição de Jesus. Posteriormente, serão apresentadas algumas considerações sobre a intenção do evangelista Marcos ao escrever seu evangelho. Por fim, será tratado ainda o tipo de enfoque bíblico-doutrinário do movimento neopentecostal. Já os principais resultados da pesquisa foram: a) incompatibilidade entre a ideologia neopentecostal com a abordagem teológica do evangelho de Marcos; e b) a perspectiva/ideologia triunfalista não é inerente apenas ao movimento neopentecostal. Já na época em que Marcos escreveu seu evangelho, a comunidade para quem ele destina sua obra também adotou essa postura triunfante sobre a figura de Jesus. / This dissertation compares the theology of the Gospel of Mark with that of the neopentecostal movement. While Markan theology is interpreted as antitriumphalist, leading faith communities to recognize the Christ of the cross, the neopentecostal movement takes the opposite path. Its emphasis is on triumph, the way without the cross. I begin by considering the environment of the first Christian communities that arose after Jesus passion, death, and resurrection. I then present several reflections on the intention of the evangelist Mark when he wrote his Gospel. Finally, I deal with the particular biblico-doctrinal focus of the neopentecostal movement. The main findings of this research were: a) there is a fundamental incompatibility between the neopentecostal ideology and the theological approach of the Gospel of Mark; and b) the triumphalist perspective/ideology is not inherent only to the neopentecostal movement. Even at the time when Mark was writing his Gospel, the faith community for which he intended his work had also adopted a triumphalist view of the figure of Jesus.

“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality, I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)

Assim nasce uma Igreja : A multiplicação das Comunidades Cristãs Independentes no Município da Serra, Estado do Espírito Santo é um trabalho que visa identificar os fatores que têm desencadeado o nascimento de novas Igrejas Cristãs, sem vínculo com comunidades históricas, no município da Serra, bem como a repercussão deste fenômeno nas Igrejas Protestantes Históricas, notadamente nas Igrejas Batistas, tanto em seus benefícios como nos prejuízos. No primeiro capítulo, situa-se a pesquisa geográfica e teoricamente, através de um mapeamento religioso do município da Serra e uma apresentação da tipologia utilizada no trabalho. O segundo capítulo traz uma síntese histórica, mostrando como as Igrejas Cristãs nasceram, desde o período do Novo Testamento até os dias atuais, com ênfase nas Igrejas do Cristianismo Primitivo, Grande Cisma, Movimento Reformador do Século XVI e Movimento Pentecostal. No terceiro capítulo são identificados os fatores externos e internos que tem desencadeado o nascimento de novas igrejas. O quarto capítulo apresenta os benefícios e os prejuízos que a fragmentação do Cristianismo produz para as Igrejas Cristãs Históricas e para o Reino de Deus. / Thus was born a church: the rise of the Christian Independent communities in the city of Serra, Espírito Santo is a work that aims to identify the factors that has triggered the birth of new Christian churches, not related to historical communities in the municipality of Serra, as well as the impact of this phenomenon in Historical Protestant Churches, especially in Baptist Churches, in both its benefits and the losses. In the first chapter, the geographical search is located and theoretically, through a mapping of the religious city of Serra and a presentation of the typology used in this work. The second chapter provides a brief history, showing how the Christian churches were born from the New Testament period to the present, with emphasis on early Christianity Churches, Great Schism, the Reform Movement of the XVI century, and in the Pentecostal movement. The third chapter identifies the external and internal factors that have triggered the birth of new churches. The fourth chapter presents the benefits and losses that the fragmentation of Christianity creates to the Historic Christian Churches and the Kingdom of God.

Este estudo trata sobre os cristãos, de ontem e de hoje, ante a tentação de se acomodarem ao mundo. Ele toma como ponto de apoio o Ap 2-3. Na primeira parte, a pesquisa estabelece um paralelo entre o Apocalipse de São João, a Apocalíptica judaica e o movimento profético que precedeu o movimento apocalíptico, em Israel. Embora aproximem-se mais da literatura profética, devido ao otimismo demonstrado com relação à história presente, as cartas dirigidas às Igrejas da Ásia Menor, segundo Ap 2-3, são marcadas por uma linguagem simbólica associada a momentos de crise, uma vez que o contexto dessas Igrejas, no final do primeiro século, é marcado pelo conflito com o Império Romano e com o Judaísmo. Assim, na segunda parte, a pesquisa nos mostra que a pressão exercida sobre as populações dominadas pelo Império Romano era muito forte, e a tentação de adaptar-se ao sistema imperial era muito grande. Jogava a favor do Império o movimento gnóstico, cujas teorias penetravam nas Igrejas com o apoio de lideranças e de membros das próprias comunidades cristãs. Ao dirigir-se então às sete Igrejas da Ásia Menor, o autor de Ap 2-3 pretende despertar as comunidades para uma ameaça que não era só externa, mas também interna, a saber: a penetração da heresia gnóstica, que favorecia a adaptação do cristianismo ao ambiente do Império Romano. Na terceira parte, constatamos que essa tentação de adaptar-se ao mundo continua muito presente em nossos dias. Continua muito atual, portanto, a mensagem contida nas cartas dirigidas às comunidades da Ásia Menor, que têm como primeira finalidade despertar os cristãos de sua acomodação e de seus compromissos com a ordem presente. Aos cristãos de hoje, seduzidos pela cultura atual e tão bem adaptados à sociedade, que já não percebem as contradições presentes nelas, o apelo é para que voltem a Jesus Cristo e retomem a conduta de outrora (cf. Ap 2,5), o que significa, muitas vezes, colocar-se na contramão da história, para testemunhar, no seio de uma comunidade cristã, que um outro mundo é possível. / This study deals with Christians from the beginning to today in the presence of the temptation to accommodate themselves to the world. It takes as point of support Revelation, chapter 2 and 3. In the first part, the research establishes a parallel between Apocalypse of John and the Jewish apocalyptic and the prophetic movement that preceded the apocalyptic movement in Israel. Although the letters written to the churches of Asia Minor, according to The Rev. 2-3, due to the optimism shown with respect to the present history, they are marked by a symbolic language associated with a crisis, since the context of these churches, at the end of the first century, is marked by conflict with the Roman Empire and Judaism. Thus, in the second part, the research shows that the pressure on the populations dominated by the Roman Empire was very strong, and the temptation to adapt them to the imperial system was too great. The Gnostic movement was in favour of the Empire, whose theories penetrated the churches with the support of leaders and members of their communities. In addressing the then seven Churches of Asia Minor, the author of Revelation 2-3 intended to arouse interest the communities to a "threat" that was not only external but also internal, namely the penetration of the Gnostic heresy, which favored adaptation of Christianity to the environment of the Roman Empire. In the third part, we found that the temptation to adapt to the world is still very present today. It's still very current, so the message contained in the letters addressed to the communities of Asia Minor, whose first purpose awaken Christians of their accommodation and their commitment to the present order. For today Christians, "seduced" by the current culture and so well adapted to society, they no longer perceive the contradictions in them, the appeal is to come back to Jesus Christ and "resume the conduct of old" (cf. Rev. 2,5), which means often put in the "opposite" of history, to witness, within a Christian community, that another world is possible.

Most recent studies of Cassian and his writings have examined the monk’s historical contexts, the theology expressed in his texts or his role in the development of monasticism. This dissertation examines the spirituality of Cassian and assesses its value to contemporary Christian communities. By applying a hermeneutical approach to the study of Cassian’s texts, the investigation distinguishes between the spirituality of Cassian, the historical person; the spirituality Cassian conveys in his writings; and Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience. The dissertation argues that Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience, as elicited by Gadamer’s hermeneutical model of conversation between text and interpreter, is valuable to contemporary Christian communities. It offers a spiritual ‘route map’ that can inspire, encourage and guide members of such communities on a spiritual journey that leads to greater intimacy with, and faithfulness to, Christ. The hermeneutical process necessary to appropriate the spirituality of Cassian as lived experience has the potential to dismantle prejudgements and attitudes of superiority and triumphalism often displayed by Christian communities and encourage fresh engagement with the history, traditions and Scriptures of the Church. / Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality)