Abstract:
This thesis was carried out with the support of CAPES Brazil and proposes a reflection about the role and care of the mind in the work Santificação da Mente [Sanctification of the Mind] of the Blessed Tiago Alberione in dialog with some texts of the Philokalia. The specific goals of the research are to characterize the anthropological conception of Tiago Alberione and his proposal for the holistic formation of the human person, beginning with the sanctification of the Mind, analyze the concept of soul, νους, kardia, the logismos in the texts of the Philokalia The first chapter deals briefly with the interior trajectory carried out by Alberione since adolescence, in the perspective of the unification of all the dimensions of his being in Christ. The historical context in which he lived and the unwinding of the elaboration of his spiritual and apostolic proposal of unification of the whole person: mind, will, heart and physical strength through, with and in the whole Christ: the Way, Truth and Life. The chapter has as its focus going in depth into the work of the Santification of the Mind, the context, the process of redaction, the contents within it, correlating it with other writings of Alberione himself on the theme of the sanctification of the mind. The third chapter is dedicated to a brief touch on Philokalia; First one deals with the anthropology of the Philokalic priests and then we analyze the terms used by the authors when dealing with the various aspects of the human interiority: soul, body, νους and kardia and the importance given to the struggle against the logismoi in the process of guarding the νους and the heart. In the last chapter an approximation and comparison is made between the work Santificação da Mente [Sanctification of the Mind] and the Philokalia where it refers to the theme of the logismos, care of the νους, heart and other elements of the path of spiritual growth, showing the currentness of the subject in the process of human and spiritual accompaniment today.
