Do profano ao sagrado: uma análise da doutrina bíblica da salvação nos poemas religiosos de Gregório de Matos

Abstract

This research aims to identify aspects relatedto the biblical doctrine of the salvation of humanity through Jesus Christ, by analyzingreligious poems of Gregório de Matos e Guerra, starting from the following question: Are therevisible marks on the path of the Poetic Persona of Gregório's religious poemsthat are similar to the attributes inherent to the human being who follows this “path of salvation”, according to Christianity? Our research corpus is composedof four poems from the religious sphere of Gregorian poetics (To Our Lord Jesus Christ with Acts of Repentance and Sighs of Love, ToOur Lord Jesus Christ, Seeking Christ and To Christ Our Crucified Lord). The work will tryto revealthat, even in the face of a conflictive period for the human spirit as it was the Baroque, especially with regard to religious issues, due to the dissensions between reformists and anti-reformists, the notion of the need for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ continues to permeate the understanding of the human being and to manifest itself through literature, as we intend to show in the analyzes. In order to demonstrate the characteristics of the saving manifestation of God through man, our theory to elaboratewhat we call “stages of salvation” is based on the study of soteriology, contained in the systematic theology works of Wayne Grudem and Millard J.Erickson. Regarding the codex, study and analysis of Gregório de Matos' poetry, we make use of great scholars of Gregorian poetics, such as James Amado, João Adolfo Hansen and Rogério Chociay. In order to carry out a qualitative, exploratory and bibliographic research, the analytical and hypothetical-deductive methodswill be used