Uma teologia do corpo no retrato de Dorian Gray: uma análise da finitude e da vaidade na perspectiva do pensamento de Rubem Alves

Abstract

The present work analyzes how the fictional work of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" presents the idea of finitude and vanity and what are its loci theologici for a theology of the body of Rubem Alves. The transformations of the modern world have long led to numerous discussions, in which different areas of knowledge can meet. In this sense, the present research approaches the theological and literary fields, so that this dialogue results in new perceptions, in order to subsidize the epistemic discourse between both, with emphasis on the anthropological theological and anthropological literary perspective. In view of this, the research seeks to answer: How does the fictional work of ―The Portrait of Dorian Gray‖ express the theological concerns of finitude and vanity from a dialogue with the theology of the body of Rubem Alves? For this, the researcher uses the cartographic-critical method that has different stages, which, in turn, transverses the literary work in a detailed investigation, by bringing a macro and micro view of the text under analysis, in a transdisciplinary way as well as,. Thus, at first, the research presents an overview of Theology, Literature and its interfaces, as well as structural aspects of the novel. In a second step, we seek to show how Oscar Wilde reveals social, economic and political aspects that transverse the work, in order to point out the author's aesthetic ideals and their reverberations. In a third moment, the historical contextualization of corporeality is glimpsed, from the Alves theological perspective, in an attempt to analyze finitude and vanity expressed in the character Dorian Gray. Finally, it can be seen, through the analysis of the work, that Literature is the source of possible theological reflections and can add to Theology a fruitful discourse, which in its particularities refer to an understanding of the human being and his apprehensions facing life. Thus, the existing interfaces between Literature and Theology are evidenced, since it is from hermeneutic analysis that theological doing finds access to human interiority, as well as to divine revelation, the latter, the primordial condition of Theology.