Do Éden à Jerusalém Celeste: a peregrinação e o santuário em perspetiva bíblica

• Autor(a) principal: Correia, João Alberto Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/theologica.2018.21

Mobility is one of the fundamental characteristics of the human being and, therefore, transversal to all humans, of all times and latitudes. When the motivation is religious, it takes the name of "pilgrimage" and, as a rule, is destined for a sanctuary. In fact, the pilgrimage is assumed as one of the most typical human and religious phenomena and the sanctuary one of the privileged and universal destinies of the human pilgrimage. This study intends to approach the phenomenon from the biblical perspective, beginning with the Old Testament (Israel, a pilgrim and foreign people) and passing on to the New Testament (The pilgrimage of Jesus, the disciples and the believing communities). Within each of these chapters, the study traverses the most significant passages in which the subject is treated and thus concludes that geographical, psychological and spiritual displacement is inscribed in our nature or essence, is part of our condition, is one of the traits of humanity; for the believer, pilgrimage is always an opportunity to re-experience the faith; being human, by nature, homo viator, it is in the condition of pilgrims that we perceive better its nature and condition. It is therefore in the attitude of those who are in transit to the heavenly Jerusalem that we are preparing to accompany the phenomena of pilgrimage which, today as yesterday, defy the Church and in particular the pastoral care of the sanctuaries.