O tempo e o espaço sagrado à luz da teologia de Jürgen Moltmann

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes time and sacred space in the current cultural context characterized by consumerism and relativism and in which, at the same time as a new spiritual ferment, an increasing number of people is turning from traditional religious forms. The reflection is sustained by the work of the German theologian of Lutheran confession, Jürgen Moltmann. Starting from a bibliographical search the work consists of three parts, beginning by exploring the process of urbanization set in motion by the industrial revolution which, on the one hand destructured the life of masses of humanity and, on the other, gave life to the contemporary technological-scientific world. The second part analyzes this reality starting from that which highlights human fragility and distress, and from the evils caused by the misuse of freedom and the destructive relationship with the environment; in order to reconcile humankind with itself, with the world and with the Creator. Finally, the notion of time and life space in Moltmann is examined in relation to sacred space, a place of beauty, goodness and divine grace; a space of transcendence and sense for modern humankind, in the multiplicity of spaces of the present urban world.