"Felizes vós, os pobres, porque vosso é o reino de Deus": perspectiva histórico-social e escatológica de Lucas 6,20

Abstract

This research aims to approach the impetuosity of the class of the rich against the poor, understood as a socio-historical construction that is supported by people's love for wealth and goods existing in the first century community, specifically in the religious context of the New Testament, in the Book of Luke 6:20. It is possible to see how the theology of salvation and redistribution arises with Messianic advent in the person of the Lucan Jesus, at the moment His mission is established in Palestine. Through His teachings, in particular, the Sermon on the Plain, institutes the good news of the Kingdom of God that proposes the inversion of the old way of living, leaning, therefore, to a new ethics proposed by the egalitarian redistribution of goods and wealth to the poor, and aim the protection, hospitality and care of those who are in sadness, hunger and anguish, due to the loss of their relatives, loss of their properties and their lands, which, as a matter of fact, were immediate products for self-maintenance and for their family members. Knowing the extent and complexity of poverty in Lucas¿s community, we chose to use the term ptochós, which include people whose only way of survival was mendicancy. The politicalsocial gears that contributed to the impoverishment of the population were in the exorbitant fees and interests proposed by the Roman authorities. With the emergence and praxis of Jesus's movement, there was the possibility of transforming situations, apparently, full of hopelessness, which through the dissemination of the Jubilee Year, give rise to new perspectives that generate hope, freedom and dignity for people who are victims of marginalization, explorations, enslavement and oppression from those who were in power