O CONCEITO DE AUTODISCERNIMENTO, À LUZ DOS PROFETAS BÍBLICOS, EM CONFRONTO COM A MODERNIDADE: UMA VISÃO RELIGIOSA EM ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Abstract

This research proposes to read Abraham Joshua Heschel's concept of selfdiscernment, compared to justice in the biblical prophets, as a proposal of humanization of men and women in modernity from the Jewish perspective. The hypothesis of this research is based on the proposition that the concept of heschelian self-discernment as a critique of the indiscernible processes of modernity can be interpreted in the light of the concept of justice in the biblical prophets taking into account the different historical contexts. Therefore, Heschel's concept of selfdiscernment will be analyzed by confronting it with modernity, considering the importance of the prophets in the process of humanization. The study was divided into three chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to some significant aspects of the life and work of Abraham Joshua Heschel. The second is a journey where justice is explored in the biblical prophets and how they behave when confronted with the injustices of their time. In the third, the contributions that Heschel's self-discernment and justice in the prophets can provide for the present days. In this way, it is possible to demonstrate that this investigation is of great magnitude in the understanding of the crisis of values that has struck the world and that has progressively removed the individual from his divine image and the transcendental experience in our day and that, through self-discernment, which generates a just action, man can become humanized.