Antropofagapia: a public-idade cívica da prática social cristã

Abstract

Introduction This paper deals with the great involvement of Christian social practice in the Third Sector, as it relates to the Brazilian context, and carries out the analysis of the concepts pertinent to a theology of the love of God. Goal To get to know the architecture of the Christian social practice in the vector processes of the Social Security organized in Brazil and called for in the Federal Constitution of 1988, as well as its own legislative functioning and its normative-legal dispositions in the process of confronting scarcity, which is organized by faith communities ever since facticity. Methodology Bibliographic-conceptual research with the goal of constructing our own referentials for the comprehension of the phenomenon in question. Throughout the research incursions in loco were made in specific regions with the goal of gathering approximations with respect to the theoretical treatment given to certain Christian-social practices and how they are processed conceptually. The debate about the findings among the researchers and the exchanges of knowledge were fundamental for the construction of the argument of the dissertation. Results - The Christian social practice is a spacial temporal form of organization of the faith communities as well as a way of interpreting the role they exert on the immediate contexts. The marked influence of the culture conditions the forms of organization, as well as defines the forms of scarcity against which the Christian social practice is organized and applied. The specific forms which substantiate this practice, that is, diakonia and charity, have their own characteristic epistemic systems and do not let themselves be reduced to vague metadiscourses. Besides this, they participate solidarily in contexts, many times marked by the absence of an infrastructural apparatus of the State, thus becoming involved in uniting with other forms of organization, which generates salutary synergies in carrying out the designated goals. Diakonia and charity, in modernity, have the same historic and social birthing places and share the structure of action which implies in i) volunteer work, ii) application of scientific methodologies and iii) the sensitization of public opinion to understand that certain actions need to be transformed into State policies, thus getting out of the pure localized confrontation. As to the divulgement of socially obtained results, for a long time a logic of unawareness of the good works has predominated, thus hurting the publicization of the results, something that only changed with the Reformation of the State in the decade of 1990, when a managerialist perception of public administration took its place, thereby resulting in the demand for greater publicization of the actions of the Third Sector in a general way. Conclusions The bibliography with respect to the theme and to the data of the statistic research, which have been being done throughout the last twenty years, show that the Christian social practice exerts influence on the organization of the Third Sector. Not only that, it contributes to the qualification of geographic territories and temporal spaces as places of dignification within the linkage of infrastructure, pavements, school, sewage system, transportation, leisure, etc., to the realization of the fundamental basics of citizenship.