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A REDESCOBERTA DO PENSAMENTO DE JOÃO CALVINO PARA O DIÁLOGO ECUMÊNICO

2012; Volume: 2011; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17771/pucrio.ateo.20388

2237-115X

Gerson Lourenço Pereira,

Education Pedagogy and Practices

This paper seeks to present some aspects of the French Reformer John Calvin thought, seeking to situate it in the current context strongly marked by religious pluralism.From the conception of knowledge of the human being of himself and about God, this paper uncovering the primary objective of Calvin that led to the development of his main work: Institutio Christianae religionis (Institutes of the Christian Religion).This idea opens the way to bring the figure of John Calvin in ecumenical debate.This work result of the interest aroused by the John Calvin Reformer after the completion of its five-hundredth anniversary, occurred in 2009, whose repercussions too timid by the Christian denominations, it was restricted primarily to the churches of the Reformed tradition inherited Calvinist theology.What is with this reflection aims to contribute to the debate from the current ecumenical tradition that stems from John Calvin and his theological elaborations, not intending to be a definitive treatise, but rather a stimulus for further investigations.