A justiça social no profeta Amós à luz do método de autodiscernimento em Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abstract

This thesis aims to make an analysis of social justice in the prophet Amos in the light of the method of Self-discernment in Abraham Joshua Heschel, since, for Heschel it is the one that best represents social justice in the Old Testament. With a strong, incisive voice, without pondering words and with objectivity, Amos reached, from the simple people, to the highest government class of his time. From this, several questions emerge that will guide this research, namely: is it possible to make this relationship without losing the strength of the Amosian prophecy and, at the same time, validate Heschel's perspective? And the most important: considering the similarities and differences of the historical context, the shape, the structural conditions and the development, how can the social justice of the prophet Amos coincide with the justice understood by Abraham Joshua Heschel, from his method of Self-discernment? It is imperative to remember that justice for Amos is more than a simple assertion, it is an existential condition. The hypothesis of this research is based on the proposition that there is an analogous axis between the prophetic writings of Amos and those of Abraham Joshua Heschel, and it is established from social justice and Self-discernment. In this regard, just as there is an amosian substrate of the idea of justice in Abraham Heschel, there is also an incipient of Heschel's method of Self-discernment in Amos' prophetic writings. To this end, the study is divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with social justice that orbits the nine chapters of the book of Amos, and how it relates in the socio-historical Israeli context of the 8th century BC. The second is a journey that explores the method of self-discernment in Abraham Joshua Heschel, and in the third, an analogy is made between Self-discernment in the prophet Amos and Amosian social justice in Abraham Heschel's method of selfdiscernment. In this way, it is possible to demonstrate that this investigation is of remarkable magnitude in the understanding of social justice in the prophecy of Amos, and how this prophecy denounced more than injustices, the very lack of Self-discernment. In the same way, it is said of Heschel's method of self-discernment, which intends to present a path of return to justice, through self-discernment, which generates a just action, allowing the rehumanization of man