Abertura de fronteiras: a Universalidade do Evangelho (Gl 3,26-28)

Abstract

Abertura de fronteiras: a Universalidade do Evangelho (Gl 3,26-28)Opening Borders: The Universality of the GospeL (Gal 3,(26)(27)(28) Resumo A Epístola aos Gálatas tem um Hino Batismal (Gl 3,(26)(27)(28) 106absorbed the Hymn and inserted him in the center of his missive. From it, Paul worked all the great themes of the Epistle, always, in the perspective of opening of borders. Within the modes of Roman slave production, he announced the Christ who broke religious, cultural, and ethnic (Jew / Greek), social (free / slaves) and gender (male / female) barriers. The openings would be possible if the new Christians succeeded in overcoming the divisions and the sectarian spirit that took over many. To overcome the factious boundaries, that is, religious, asymmetric, and androcentric, the adherence to Jesus Christ was necessary. Paul, preaching the Hymn, said that all segments should become "one" (heis) in Jesus Christ: in ecclesiological unity the Gospel should be proclaimed as the liberating proclamation to all people. By using the historical-critical and sociological methods, by the conflictual/contradiction model, we tried to read the three assertions, from the "social place" of the marginalized (ethnic, slaves and woman) and see how those excluded from the Gospel, they became subjects of their stories.