COMENSALIDADE E ASCESE: CONFLITOS DE PROJETOS MESSIÂNICOS A PARTIR DE LC 7,31-35

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

To eat or not to eat? To drink or not to drink? What, with whom, when, where and how? These are questions which accompanied the humanitys history, and they also were very significant in the Mediterranean nations cultural context since the first century after Christ. Tell me what you eat and I tell you who you are, added to Tell me with whom you eat, are sayings that summarize the whole cultural and symbolical content (social, economical, political and religious ones) linked to feeding and its sharing. Possessing the devil, while accusation against John the Baptist; Look! A glutton and drunkard, friend of tax gatherers and sinners as the blemish attributed to Jesus: the Jesus table fellowship, in divergence with the Baptists ascesis and with that generations patterns, became evident a conflict between distinct social and religious conceptions. For Jesus and his followers, itinerant thaumaturgists, the binomials miracle/ table and healing / meal, are the propitious places to make happen the gift mechanism: giving, receiving and retributing.(AU)

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john the baptist symbolism table mesa simbolismo. ascese jesus comensalidade ciencias humanas table fellowship jesus ascesis joão batista

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