A Práxis reformada e o desenvolvimento educacional do Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX

• Autor(a) principal: Carmo, César Guimarães do
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25592
• topic: educação; Reforma protestante; João Calvino; presbiteriano; jesuítas; Mackenzie; Gammon; education; John Calvin; presbyterian; jesuits; Mackenzie; Gammon; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This monograph reflects, from a Religious Studies perspective, on the reformed praxis and Brazilian educational development in the second half of 19th Century. It approaches as main theme the presuppositions of the Reformed praxis related to education, as well as it does secondarily about Roman Catholic Church praxis. It verifies the Catholic Church presence and action through the Jesuits: his methods and the results of their activities until the banishment during 1760, while the pombalinas reforms were taking place. It observes that the Reformation brought in itself a new perspective of human inclusion in society, where he/she should accomplish his/her divine mission. A faithful one was called to worship God and to serve him all over the world being faithful in every and each feature of his/her life, also to develop his/her skills given by God, not only in a religious affairs, but as well as in politics, science, art, education, in all spheres, where God is served by human activity. The thought above, primarily found in Calvin, grounded the first missionaries conduct and behavior on Brazilian soil, mainly, those Presbyterians, that is the focus of this research. They developed reformed praxis to build a relationship with the world that transforms it. They grounded it through an authentic spiritual experience, not in an obscure knowledge, but in the practice of good works and in the practical realities of life, keeping far from scholasticism and Aristotelianism. They understood, from a reformed perspective, the education as a necessary tool to the development of the faith and social transformation. Education aimed, therefore, to create human beings with moral values who could get involved in their duties to God, to themselves, to their neighbors and to their nation. The results obtained became evident through the establishments and histories of Mackenzie and Gammon Presbyterian Institutes.