Vozes do trovão: a vez e a voz de Boanerges Ribeiro

Abstract

Boanerges Ribeiro was, without doubt, one of the main thinkers of the Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (IPB). The religious discourse he produced is a canvas in which the character and body painted become strong shades of the constitution of his ethos which, by its turn, limits the interaction of his discourse to a set of social fabric which are valued according to the image construed by the pathos. In face of such interaction, our research problem consists in knowing to which extent the boanergist religious discourse, pierced by a political-eclesiastic view, opens itself to a linguistic-ideologic-discursive relation with Calvinistic Reformed theology, derived from the hermeneutic of the Protestant Reformation of the XVI century and reflected in the confessional documents of the IPB. The choice of the shape of the discourses speeches, sermons and lectures is justified by the fact that they reveal a very large range of terms that produce effects of religious meaning, what lets us conclude that the interdiscursivity is a constructive argumentation maneuver of the discourse, that causes the biblical discourse to be one of the arguing basis to establish a relation of truth between the one that enunciates and the enunciatary. The discourse analysis, the rhetoric and semiotic serve as theoretical foundation in this research and aims to open for one studying the Portuguese idiom and for the analyst of the discourse, fields of several discursive theories, but without letting him miss, obviously, the foundational and particular previous conditions of each of these theories, represented by his or her object of research and by methodological techniques