Os novos movimentos eclesiais e a formação da consciência: uma análise ético-teológica crítica dos processos de subjetivação na Comunidade Católica Shalom

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the formation process in the Shalom Catholic Community in the post-Vatican II context and the possible impacts on the autonomy of conscience. Having as an initial aspect, that the new communities are mostly integrated by laymen and laywomen, it aims to questionthe data of subjectivity before the community structure. In this way, understanding that the inner dimension of each individual should be its primordial rule, contrary to this notion, it is possible to notice that, inserted in these new communitarian structures, these ecclesial subjects end up outsourcing their lives. In this research, we intend to problematize this complex reality from three moments on. In the first, to present the ecclesiological and lay notion in the phases of Vatican Council II; in thesecond, the new associative forms with charismatic spirituality, specifically the Shalom Community and its formation process; and in the third, to problematize the theme of the formation of conscience and the process of subjectivation, in the light of theTheological Tradition. Thus, the work aims to propose a reflection on the complexity existing in the context of the new communities, in order to show possible scenarios of crisis and distancing in what is expected in the full experience of the lay vocation and the protagonism of conscience in the life of the faithful