OS DESAFIOS DO CRISTIANISMO NAS CIDADES: A PERSPECTIVA DE JOSÉ COMBLIN

Abstract

The challenges of Christianism in the city: the perspective of José Comblin, attempts to systematize the author’s thinking on the theme. It starts with the concept of Christianism and urban life in Comblin’s thinking, incorporating on that line the city’s pedagogy, which sees the city known nowadays as the educator that prepares humanity for community life for its future. The term urban revolution highlights the changes occurred in the structure of the urbe, which profoundly altered its entire platform. It is also proposed the questioning of dechristianization provided by urbanization, because it analyses if the cities have ever been Christianized, straining to show that urbanization promotes gains to the concept of salvation which the city expresses in Comblin’s theory. The assignment also follows the criticism to the so-called paradox of the temple in the city, however defines it as urban community, concluding that humanity only exists in others relationships from the urban community. Thereby, theorizing the full city without temple, he proposes the replacement of the so-called house churches, regular houses in the city performing various roles, including ecclesiastical. The contemporary city has its challenges, as an example the diversity which composes it, and the various cultures contained takes the Christianity to always seek a unique contextualization, because each city presents a unique culture. The 21st century Christian, inserted in a new society trying to ensure human rights, as dignity and life itself, it is called to fulfill what was stablished as human rights. The Secular State and democratic imposes rights and duties, as the freedom of religious expression and the privacy, besides the delimitation and stablishing measures with views to the respect with the multiple religious expressions in society. Basically, understood as the bearer of hope and justice, The Christianity sees itself committed with the social transformation.