Religião, verdade e comunicação: a ética de Jesus ante as tensões comunicacionais

Abstract

Based on the understanding that communicational tensions are inherent to the nature of disputes over truth, this thesis aims to identify the types and modes of communicational tensions that emerge from disputes between actors present in religious debates in the Christian tradition. It then investigates whether, from a specific ethical perspective, these tensions possess communicational strength capable of producing a kind of truth with sufficient reason, though not necessarily absolute. We seek to demonstrate how these tensions represent the properly communicational dimension within religion. To achieve this, we have organized a methodological path based on the interpretative qualitative paradigm, which unfolds in three parts: the first consists of developing a metatheoretical bibliographic foundation; the second involves designing a unique method for mapping communicational tensions; and the third comprises a qualitative analysis of an empirical observable of typical case. The chosen empirical observable was chapter 17 of the Book of Acts of the Apostles, analyzed through three sub-mapping corresponding to the cities of Thessalonica, Berea and Athens. Based on the results obtained, we developed a metatheoretical framework of communicational tensions in the three cities, which presented distinct tensions according to the cosmopolitics of each place. We adopted the idea of truth as a broader notion than religious dogma and perceived the ethics of Jesus as a central factor in the perspectives of tensions in communicability in the struggles for truth, being able to generate tensions strong enough to establish a type of truth of sufficient reason that maintains respect, otherness, friendliness, active listening time, and tolerance. The research also revealed other significant results, including the emergence of new categories of analysis related to communicational tensions and different types of tensions identified in the study. Furthermore, a communicational and pragmatic understanding of conversion was proposed, anchored in the communicational tensions inherent in the ethics of Jesus