ATUAÇÃO DE MULHERES EM MINISTÉRIOS PASTORAIS: REALIDADE PRESENTE EM TEXTOS

Abstract

In this research we investigated the women's protagonism in ministerial functions in biblical texts like Rm. 16,1-16 and we commented about challenges faced by women in Churches now a days, that disconsider their participation in the original Christian communities. We evidenced the need of a historical reconstruction of women in cleric positions, so today they can act in Churches with biblical back up. We identified in this investigation that women's ministerial functions stayed occult along the times because, a many times, the church did not make a critical reading of biblical texts, disregarding its androcentric and patriarchal language. To come to this conclusion, we divided this work in three chapters. In the first chapter, we presented a general vision of Apostle Paul's missionary work and we also approached social-economic aspects, Rome's politicians and religious people, trying to discover in what context of the first century the women were inserted. In the second chapter, we developed an exegesis of Rm. 16,1-16 through feminist hermeneutic to detect the ministerial functions carried out by women, with the intention of clarify the androcentric readings contrary to the full ministerial acting by women. In the third chapter, we made a historical-creative reconstruction, discussing on the influence now a days biblical texts cause in women's ministry when they are read outside their context.