A INTERPRETAÇÃO DA SIMBÓLICA DA QUEDA EM PAUL TILLICH:Um Estudo em Hermenêutica Teológica

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Guilherme Vilela Ribeiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/412
• topic: Símbolo religioso; Ontologia; Teologia dogmática; Pecado; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The Dissertation seeks to understand and to assess critically the theological hermeneutics of Paul Tillich through the study of its symbolic interpretation of the classic Christian doctrine of sin, in its protestant-agostinian form. The work is developed in three stages. Firstly, the theory of the religious symbol of Paul Tillich is presented. After that, his interpretation of the doctrine of sin, present in the complex of mythical and conceptual symbols that had been congregated under the name of the symbolic of the Fall" is analyzed. In the third and last part, from an evaluation of the practical hermeneutics of Tillich, followed by a critical assessment by some of his critics, especially William Alston and Reinhold Niebuhr, and of a special dialogue with Paul Ricoeur, the author concludes that both the theory of the symbol of Tillich and its hermeneutical approach, that goes mainly from the existential analysis to the symbol, needs perfectioning; and that the symbolic theory of Ricoeur, associated to its inductive proposal of hermeneutical reflection, supplies an important contribution to it. At the same time, the success of Tillich on the interpretation of the symbolic of the Fall seems to refute the thesis of Ricoeur an approach that goes from ontology to symbol is inadequate by principle. We conclude, therefore, that the approach of Tillich is valid, but needs to be complemented; it is necessary to think a two-ways hermeneutics, that gives equal voice both to the religious symbols and to the existential ontology.(AU)