ESPERANÇA ESCATOLÓGICA EM PAULO: Uma análise histórico-crítica e teológica de Rm 8, 18-25

Abstract

This work searches to approach the eschatological hope of the of Rm 8, 18-25 in a historical-critical and theological perspective. The opportune reading of the historical-political-cultural backdrop makes possible larger explanation of the theology of the foregoing fragment mentioned especially because it is one writing with eschatological tonic. All exegetical-critical orientation of this dissertation intends to extract the original intention of the author of the sacred text. In this sense this dissertative work is divided in two blocks: the first explores the historicalpolitical- atmosphere, the theological-hermeneutical matrix that might have influenced the author of this Epistle and the syntactical-semantical analyses of eschatological hope of the text of Rm 8, 18-25; the second tries to analyze and to explore the theology of undertaken in the first block. In the meaning of the eschatological hope for the resident primitive community´s faith in the capital of the Roman Empire to whom Paul writes this Epistle.