Missão e transformação social
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Data de Publicação: | 2014 |
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Texto Completo: | https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2014.2423 |
Resumo: | Just as happens with other religious creeds, Christianity too presents a clear ethic, summarised synthetically in Jesus Christ’s commandment to: “love God and one’s neighbour” (Mt 22,37-40). In this sense, we may say that Christianity is a religion with a praxis, operative, that does not leave the resolution of human problems to the care of the gods, but which assumes the mandate and the manner in which the Creator has made responsible in relation to the ordering of the created world (Gn 1,28). For this motive, the Church’s mission cannot ignore the whole issue that hides behind concepts such as ‘liberation’, ‘human advancement’, prophetic denouncement’, ‘struggle against injustice, ‘eradication of poverty’, ‘human rights’, ‘confronting every kind of oppression’, ‘defence of the dignity of those on the fringes of society’… Recently, indeed, Pope Francis entitled chapter IV of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium in the following manner: “The social dimension of evangelisation”. It is true that the Church has for two thousand years always concerned itself with the poor and with solidarity and the tasks of human advancement, especially in health and education. But now the perspective is really something different: no longer an attitude of care of the spirit, which determined the purpose of mission in the ‘salvation of souls’ or in the ‘cure of souls’ – with the evident danger of the body-soul dichotomy, and still less one of providing assistance, which sought to succour all those in need in acts of charity but which did not uncover nor interest itself in the structural causes of all injustice and human suffering. |
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Missão e transformação socialJust as happens with other religious creeds, Christianity too presents a clear ethic, summarised synthetically in Jesus Christ’s commandment to: “love God and one’s neighbour” (Mt 22,37-40). In this sense, we may say that Christianity is a religion with a praxis, operative, that does not leave the resolution of human problems to the care of the gods, but which assumes the mandate and the manner in which the Creator has made responsible in relation to the ordering of the created world (Gn 1,28). For this motive, the Church’s mission cannot ignore the whole issue that hides behind concepts such as ‘liberation’, ‘human advancement’, prophetic denouncement’, ‘struggle against injustice, ‘eradication of poverty’, ‘human rights’, ‘confronting every kind of oppression’, ‘defence of the dignity of those on the fringes of society’… Recently, indeed, Pope Francis entitled chapter IV of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium in the following manner: “The social dimension of evangelisation”. It is true that the Church has for two thousand years always concerned itself with the poor and with solidarity and the tasks of human advancement, especially in health and education. But now the perspective is really something different: no longer an attitude of care of the spirit, which determined the purpose of mission in the ‘salvation of souls’ or in the ‘cure of souls’ – with the evident danger of the body-soul dichotomy, and still less one of providing assistance, which sought to succour all those in need in acts of charity but which did not uncover nor interest itself in the structural causes of all injustice and human suffering.De igual modo com o que se passa noutros credos religiosos, também o cristianismo apresenta uma ética clara, resumida sinteticamente no mandamento de Jesus Cristo: «amar a Deus e ao próximo» (Mt 22,37-40). Nesse sentido, podemos dizer que o cristianismo é uma religião práxica, operativa, que não deixa ao cuidado das divindades a resolução dos problemas humanos, mas que assume o mandato e responsabilização do ser humano por parte do Criador relativamente ao ordenamento do mundo criado (Gn 1,28). Por esse motivo, a missão da Igreja não pode deixar de lado toda a problemática que se esconde por detrás de conceitos como ‘libertação’, ‘promoção humana’, ‘denúncia profética’, ‘luta contra a injustiça’, ‘erradicação da pobreza’, ‘direitos humanos’, ‘enfrentamento face a todo o tipo de opressão’, ‘defesa da dignidade dos marginalizados’… Recentemente, aliás, o papa Francisco intitulou o capítulo IV da Exortação Apostólica Evangelii Gaudium do seguinte modo: «A dimensão social da evangelização». É verdade que a Igreja, desde há dois mil anos, sempre se preocupou com os pobres e a solidariedade ou as tarefas da promoção humana, especialmente na saúde e na educação. Mas a perspetiva, agora, é realmente outra: já não o espiritualismo, que determinava a finalidade da missão na ‘salvação das almas’ ou na ‘cura das almas’ – com o evidente perigo da dicotomia alma-corpo, e tão pouco o assistencialismo, que pretendia socorrer a todos os necessitados dentro duma ação caritativa mas que não chegava a descobrir nem a interessar-se pelas causas estruturais de toda a injustiça e sofrimento humano.Universidade Católica Portuguesa2014-06-01T00:00:00Zjournal articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2014.2423oai:ojs.revistas.ucp.pt:article/2423Didaskalia; Vol 44 No 2 (2014): Responsabilidade social da fé; 167-182Didaskalia; v. 44 n. 2 (2014): Responsabilidade social da fé; 167-1820253-167410.34632/didaskalia.2014.44.2reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPporhttps://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/didaskalia/article/view/2423https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2014.2423https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/didaskalia/article/view/2423/2338Direitos de Autor (c) 2014 José Nuneshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessNunes, José2022-09-26T10:57:43Zoai:ojs.revistas.ucp.pt:article/2423Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:06:55.377788Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Just as happens with other religious creeds, Christianity too presents a clear ethic, summarised synthetically in Jesus Christ’s commandment to: “love God and one’s neighbour” (Mt 22,37-40). In this sense, we may say that Christianity is a religion with a praxis, operative, that does not leave the resolution of human problems to the care of the gods, but which assumes the mandate and the manner in which the Creator has made responsible in relation to the ordering of the created world (Gn 1,28). For this motive, the Church’s mission cannot ignore the whole issue that hides behind concepts such as ‘liberation’, ‘human advancement’, prophetic denouncement’, ‘struggle against injustice, ‘eradication of poverty’, ‘human rights’, ‘confronting every kind of oppression’, ‘defence of the dignity of those on the fringes of society’… Recently, indeed, Pope Francis entitled chapter IV of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium in the following manner: “The social dimension of evangelisation”. It is true that the Church has for two thousand years always concerned itself with the poor and with solidarity and the tasks of human advancement, especially in health and education. But now the perspective is really something different: no longer an attitude of care of the spirit, which determined the purpose of mission in the ‘salvation of souls’ or in the ‘cure of souls’ – with the evident danger of the body-soul dichotomy, and still less one of providing assistance, which sought to succour all those in need in acts of charity but which did not uncover nor interest itself in the structural causes of all injustice and human suffering. |
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