Abstract:
This research investigates “the social care” described by the Johannine community, providing opportunities, with the results obtained, for the rereading and reinterpretation of the Johannine text. Thus, the Fourth Gospel would cease to be just pneumatic, but also somatic, as much as the other gospels. It aims to demonstrate that the reflective community in this gospel has assumed the purpose not only of manifesting a soteriological message to the world, but also the concern with social care aimed at social justice in this world. World constitutes a fundamental concept in understanding the relationship of the Johannine community with its context. To clarify this understanding, the phases of textual/community construction were verified in its Judeo-Christian environment and also in Asia Minor; the interaction of members of this group with other groups in their immediate environment; the exchange of thoughts in those cultures; the mapping of the word world in the Fourth Gospel and the signs of social care presented by this community. The purpose of this rereading of the Gospel of John aims to understand and comprehend Jesus' relationship with marginalized and excluded social groups. Aiming, in addition to raising awareness of the inclusions that the Johannine community makes with the marginalized, to make the reader realize the need to do something to alleviate and/or reduce social injustices in our society, taking as na example the records of the actions and words of Jesus of that community.
