Quando a realidade questiona a religião : diálogo entre Qohélet (eclesiastes) e Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Abstract

This research deals about the need for religion and religious experience to be committed to reality. The proposal is to present a reflection that enables the pratice of religion incarnated in the reality of everyday life, without losing sight of the transcendent horizon of hope and fear of God. In order to reach the proposed objective, the reflections of two authors based on their religious experiences are studied. Although distinct, the reflections converge in certain aspects such as the criticism of religion and the commitment to everyday reality. These are the reflections of Qohélet (Ecclesiastes) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The biblical book presentes reality with radical harshness, describing it as it is presented to it marked by ephemerality, emptiness, finitude and death. He used the Hebrew word hebel to describe this. In turn, Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian, after many centuries of the experience of Qohélet, rescues the Old Testament writings to elaborate a mature and incarnated Christianity, consistent with the historical period in which he lived. Finally, there is a dialogue between the autors to find a proposal for a mature and incarnated religious experience, tested and questioned by everyday reality.