O processo de conversão a Deus pela via racional e mística

Abstract

The process of conversion to God, through rational and mystical way, when approached from the perspective of faith and human reason, is studied both by philosophy and theology. Conversion is the realization of the human being, a meeting with the Supreme Good and Truth, which involves an ascent of the soul and intelligence to God, walking on the path of renunciation to the sin and the search of holiness. In this way, Plotinus, a pagan philosopher, presents it as a epistrophê; in other wise, Augustine identifies it to Christian metánoia. Both approaches make use of a metaphysical structure that serves as the support for mystic, where it is possible to estabilish a rapprochement between the two systems. Thus, the religious philosophy of Plotinus will greatly influence the thinking of Augustine in a first step of his life, but he (Augustine) progressively overcomes at the same time in wich he enters, more and more, into the knolodge of the Sacred Scriptures mainly by reading St. Paul.