DISCURSO DA COMUNIDADE LUCANA SOBRE O CARISMA NO CRISTIANISMO PRIMITIVO

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze both Luca’s literary work, Luke-Acts, in order to identify in his speech charisma elements. The first part of this work is an introduction to the subject. It exposes an analyzes about Lucas’s text demonstrating his literary ingenuity, the questioning of his sources and the relation between parts of the same work that presents his deep biographical and historiographical character. The theological intention of Luke, according to a particular historical moment, made him a pioneer among the New Testament writers resulting in a two volume work. The first part ends with a question about the kind of genre that Lucas applies in his work and also what is the best to fit to his writings. The second part of this work describes the stages of the investigation regarding the charismatic Jesus, from the Weber’s conception of charisma. It addresses the phenomenological, theological and sociological contribution which dominates the studies of historical Jesus. The hermeneutic line of the sociology of religion suggests a more authentic analysis of a social and historical environment Jesus is inserted, enables a new reading that recovers the tradition of orality and community memory. The third and final part explores the charisma in Lucas’s texts. Recovers the origins of Jesus’s disciples and his subsequent change of vivencial structure. From the original community to primitive comunity of Jerusalem or Judea community which experiences the changes originated from the delay of parousia and the need for historical continuity. This is the community in full changes that Luke demonstrates in his writings. A community that does not focus in the end of time to live it in history. The way of living is filled with signs and miracles which highlights the presence of the Spirit in a pragmatic way