A redução protestante: uma análise introdutória das possibilidades do protestantismo na modernidade a partir da precariedade de sua linguagem simbólica

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Edson Duque de
• Orientador(a): Cavalcante, Ronaldo de Paula
• Banca de defesa: Campos, Breno Martins , Higuet, Etienne Alfred
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Religião
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: linguagem; símbolo; protestantismo; modernidade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: language; symbol; protestantism; modernity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25679

This study investigates language in its symbolic aspect. Generally speaking, language has an existential value. Language builds worldview. It legitimates a specific interpretation of reality. It mediates the relationship with others, and also with the totally other ; in this case a symbolic language is indispensable considering the open and suggestive character of the symbol. It also analyzes Protestantism, mainly its puritanical version as a religion that minimizes mainline religious symbolism in the medieval catholic universe. Protestantism rejects each and every addition to the established relationship between the sinning human being and the untouchable God. The anguish that comes from the relationship between man and God must be overcome alone through a well-succeeded performance in the world that it is capable of revealing the state of grace of the individual. All of that has ethics, economics, and religious implications. Protestantism represents the climax of the process of disenchantment of the world through religion, for through science the world is far from an end. When disenchanted Modernity affirms the autonomy of an individual, it destroys the institutions, it alters the belief, and it promotes religious pluralism and privatizes the religious experience. The individual is free, but crushed for the lack of existential meaning. Modernity frees the individual from religion, but it does not eliminate religion, although not all religion survives in Modernity without choosing insanity. Protestantism based in its freedom principle seems to be the religion of Modernity if it overcomes the temptation of being the holder of the truth. After all, for protestantism, the truth without the search for the truth is only half the truth.