A CIDADANIA DO CÉU EM FILIPENSES 3,20: o sentido do seu significado.

Abstract

This dissertation is concerned with what the substantial content that the expression heavenly citizenship brings within itself. To accomplish this, the study starts from the historical reconstitution of the Sitz im Leben (life setting) that the apostle Paul s letter to the Christians in the church which he founded (and of which he was so attached to) in Philippi and then explains in what circumstances this letter was written, so to understand the reason Paul used the term citizenship capturing the attention of his readers. The study then details the biblical text in its original greek and does an exegesis of the passage inserted into its original language, where this study focuses its main research citizenship of heaven and from this definition defines the margins that bound the interpretation based on Pauline hermeneutics. In the last chapter, without taking into consideration the informality of various colloquial expressions that mark Philippians, this study presents the interpretive variations of 3:20, so one can have a possible interpretation of the meaning heavenly citizenship . Careful examination infers that the expression was not used in the sense that the common greek world (active political participation) our roman world (quality of the subject) would have used it. The specific term seeks to reinforce the community (and not the enemies of the cross) starting from the archetype of Christ and later becoming the center of the Christian faith.