Abstract:
This work makes an analysis on involvement from the beginning of the Evangelical
Lutheran confession with children s education school in Angola. The first part makes
an education approach of children, starting from the traditional and culture of Bantu
people in Angola. This part includes gestation, childhood, adolescence and rites of
passages for girls and boys. The implantation of the church in Angola elapses in
simultaneous with the fixation of the colonialism system. Therefore the education
plan of the church was subordinated under pretensions of colonialism system. The
second part analysis how, the Evangelical Lutheran mission in Angola, valued the
children s school education. In this part, is spoken loudly about the catechism from
the reform of the church in Germany until the appearance of the Lutheran Church in
Angola. This is, also, a part of the work that is touching in the historical point of view,
because it brings to the unstressed histories of people, that were arrested and
another died because of the implantation of the Lutheran Church in Angola. It is
noticed that the colonial system offered to the Angolan people mainly to those that
had as eclesial option the Lutheran confession a church, a language for teaching
and prison or death for the reticent. The third part and the last one speeches on the
evangelical Lutheran church of Angola in it s relevance for children s education. It is
showing that Christian Education starts from Jesus Christ s Great Commission in
Mathew 28.19-20. It approaches on the children in the Bible, the child s relationships
with the modern family in Angola, showing how the Lutheran confession values the
children s school education and finishing with a proposal of an education project of
IELA that is a challenge. The work starts with a brief introduction and ends with a
synthetic conclusion.
