Jesus, Filho do Altíssimo, fonte de libertação, salvação, inclusão e missão: a dinâmica pragmalinguística em Lc 8,26-39

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adriano Lazarini Souza dos
• Orientador(a): Ulloa, Boris Agustín Nef
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Teologia
• Departamento: Faculdade de Teologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Evangelho de Lucas; Pragmática; Atos de fala; Exegese bíblica; Missão cristã
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Gospel of Luke; Pragmatics; Speech acts; Biblical exegeses; Christian mission
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/45472

This dissertation undertakes a pragmalinguistic analysis of Lk 8,26-39, the pericope narrating the healing of the demon-possessed man in the region of Gerasa. Recognizing that the Lukan account goes beyond a mere description of a miraculous event, the research seeks to understand how the linguistic and communicative resources employed in the text effect transformations within the narrative, social, and missionary spheres. The central objective is to investigate how the pragmatics of discourse in Lk 8,26-39, as a communicative unit, enables both its implied and contemporary readers to perceive the effective action of God on behalf of humanity, His desire for total reintegration, and the universal expansion of His salvific effects. For this purpose, the thesis adopts as its theoretical framework contributions from the Pragmatics of Language (Morris, Austin, Searle, Bremond, Grice), Discourse Analysis (Van Dijk, Adam, Koch), and recent studies in Biblical Pragmatics (Lentzen-Deis, Mora Paz, Grilli, Dillmann, Guidi, Obara). The methodology combines a linguistic analysis of the narrative structure with pragmatic categories—speech acts, presuppositions, implicatures, and interactional dynamics—in order to highlight the perlocutionary effects of the text and its role in Luke’s theological communication. The findings demonstrate that the account of Lk 8, 26-39 presents a communicative progression that moves from the recognition of Jesus’ power by the unclean spirits to the missionary proclamation of the former demoniac, thereby constituting a paradigm of proclamation within a non-Jewish context. The analysis shows that the text effects a dual transformation: existential liberation, social reintegration, and missionary commissioning. It is concluded that the pragmatics of the Lukan narrative not only reinforces Jesus’ authority over evil but also delineates the communicative and missionary dimensions of Christian faith. The principal contribution of this dissertation lies in showing how a pragmalinguistic analysis illuminates the theological and pastoral aspects of the biblical text, broadening the understanding of its communicative power and suggesting pathways for contemporary missionary hermeneutics