TEOLOGIA PARA A VIDA COTIDIANA: uma análise das Lições Bíblicas das Assembleias de Deus para as Escolas Dominicais.

• Autor(a) principal: BANDEIRA, Wesley Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/2016
• topic: Lições Bíblicas; Escola Bíblica Dominical; Assembleias de Deus; Teologia; Vida Cotidiana; Bible Lessons; Sunday School; Assemblies of God; Theology; Daily life; CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The Assemblies of God are considered by many authors to be the main and most influential Pentecostal Church in Brazil. Many texts propose to show their history and institutional organization. However, gaps are shown when we observe the elements of their theologies and structures of thoughts from the eyes of Human Sciences. There are a few pieces of research dedicated to observing the construction of the doctrines, and the value of this institution for its believers and therefore for Brazilian society. Having an understanding of this academic gap the objective is in this thesis, to observe in which conditions the bases of the assembly's teachings were built and how their transformations have been taking place over the years. I hypothesize that the official theology of the AGs present in the Bible Lessons for Sunday School magazines was built on principles given a priori by the literal reading of the Bible which dialogues with the contingencies of concrete life, making the Pentecostal theology manifesting itself alive and meaningful to the believers of that institution. To verify this hypothesis, I analyze its main theological material, the Bible Lessons for Sunday Schools, choosing four thematic axes present in the Bible Lessons, which are in association with the organization of daily life, namely: the family, work, education, and the politics. The historical outline defined in this thesis contemplates the years from 1930 to the 2000s. This period is subdivided into three periods corresponding to the initial years of Swedish influence from 1930 to 1945; the years that contemplate the arrival of American missionaries from 1946 to 1972 and finally the missionary and eschatological period spanning the years 1973 to the 2000s. Finally, I conclude that the Pentecostal theology of AGs is not static and unique as propagated by its main representatives but is fluid and diverse always in dialogue with the transformations identified as well in the social and secular environment.