Maranathá! : a escatologia como horizonte da justiça, a partir da teologia de Joseph Ratzinger

Abstract

This master's research aims the concept of "justice" in the Catholic eschatology, from the German theologian Joseph Ratzinger approach, to understand the implications of this issue for the Christian praxis. It is about to verify the relationship between the Christian hope of eschatological justice and the need to establish new relations of justice in the current context. Therefore, we discuss in the first chapter, the theme of eschatological justice in Sacred Scripture, in the Christian Tradition and the Magisterium of the Church. In the second chapter is rescued the theological sense of the traditional doctrine of the final judgment, presented by Ratzinger as "the decisive image of hope", in an updated reading that seeks to overcome the remnants of a forensic vision, threatening, punitive and retributive divine justice. In the third and final chapter, based on the relationship between eschatology and praxis it is intended to reflect upon the need for a new concept and new relationships of justice, on a full and creative perspective, reconciling and restoring, through the contributions of Catholic Social Teaching, the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, in dialogue with other authors dealing with the theme.