The psalmical spirituality’s solidness before the current liquid society

Authors

  • Rafael Gouvêa Domingues Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2177-952X.2018v12i22p104-112

Keywords:

Spirituality, Psalms, Liquid Society, Sin, Magisterium of the Church

Abstract

This article seeks to clarify the value of the Christian faith improvements through well founded arguments, in order to protect it from a certain lessening to the immanent and temporal ideas, aiming to the existentiality of the Christian being who reads up on what is eschatological. The proposed itinerary is achieved by the authentic awareness of sin, so that the sinner recognizes himself as such one and experiences the saving presence of God, both personally and socially. The methodology used was based on bibliographical and electronic researches related to the proposed theme. Basically there was the usage of some renowned authors like Zygmunt Bauman, on his expressiveness of the liquid modernity, Alonso Schökel, on his biblical approach, and also  several pronouncements of the Magisterium of the Universal and Latin American Church, as well as references to Sacred Scripture. The route passed through the present liquidity in today's reality to the firmness of spirituality, more specifically the one concerning the people of Israel through the Psalms, in the revisiting of such spiritual genesis. Among these, one opted for the penitential sphere, with a greater focus on Psalm 32 (31). A deep-rooted and permanent spirituality was achieved through the cultivation of communion with God, assuring master pilasters to live the faith extensively in the midst of the contemporary times swifts.

Author Biography

Rafael Gouvêa Domingues, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Presbítero diocesano, Bacharel em Teologia pela Faculdade Dehoniana, com especialização em Gestão de Pessoas pela Uniseb/Coc; especialização em Filosofia e Ensino de Filosofia e em Teologia Contemporânea, ambas pelo Centro Universitário Claretiano; mestrando em Teologia Prática pela PUC-SP.

Published

2019-01-09

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