Origem e institucionalização da Igreja Metodista Wesleyana
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2014-04-14
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Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
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Este texto é o resultado de uma pesquisa empreendida sobre a origem histórica e características da Igreja Metodista Wesleyana, uma dissidência pentecostalizante da Igreja Metodista do Brasil, iniciada no Rio de Janeiro, no final dos anos 1960. Objetivou-se com essa investigação analisar as causas intracampo e extracampo religioso, que estimularam tal acontecimento. Enfatizamos os conflitos pastorais, administrativos e teológicos que fizeram da 1ª Região Eclesiástica da Igreja Metodista do Brasil um campo de batalha, onde pastores, leigos e bispo se envolveram em lutas que geraram a referida cisão. Diferente do pentecostalismo, que encontrou uma maior identificação com a cultura brasileira, o protestantismo, inclusive metodista, não conseguiram ganhar as camadas pobres da população, ficando com a classe média. Daí o aparecimento de processos de pentecostalização em várias denominações brasileiras como entre os presbiterianos, batistas, congregacionais, luteranos, metodistas e outros. A Igreja Metodista Wesleyana já surgiu institucionalizada, seguindo os modelos da Igreja Metodista do Brasil, de onde o grupo saiu. A seguir ela foi assumindo uma identidade pentecostal se perpetuando no campo religioso por meio de criação de seus próprios mecanismos institucionais e burocráticos.
This text is the result of an undertaken research about the Wesleyan Methodist Church historical origin and its features, a pentecostal dissident of the Brazil’s Methodist Church, started in Rio de Janeiro, in the late 1960’s. Aimed with this investigation, analyze the intrafield reasons and religious extra field that stimulated that happening. We emphasize the shepherd, administrative and theological conflicts which made of the Brazil’s Methodist Church First Ecclesiastical Region a battle field where shepherds, lay and bishop involved themselves in fights that generated this split. The sources of this split are, in our point of view, in the lack of the historical protestantism adequacy to the country’s social, economic and cultural conditions. Different from pentecostalism that found a bigger identification with Brazilian’s culture, the protestantism, including methodist, which were not able to gain the poor layers, getting to the middle class. So then the appearance of pentecostalization process in many Brazilian denominations between the presbyterians, the baptists, congregational, lutherans, methodists and others. The Wesleyan Methodist Church has emerged institutionalized, following the models of the Methodist Church of Brazil, where the group left. Then she was taking a Pentecostal identity perpetuating the religious field by creating their own institutional and bureaucratic mechanisms.
This text is the result of an undertaken research about the Wesleyan Methodist Church historical origin and its features, a pentecostal dissident of the Brazil’s Methodist Church, started in Rio de Janeiro, in the late 1960’s. Aimed with this investigation, analyze the intrafield reasons and religious extra field that stimulated that happening. We emphasize the shepherd, administrative and theological conflicts which made of the Brazil’s Methodist Church First Ecclesiastical Region a battle field where shepherds, lay and bishop involved themselves in fights that generated this split. The sources of this split are, in our point of view, in the lack of the historical protestantism adequacy to the country’s social, economic and cultural conditions. Different from pentecostalism that found a bigger identification with Brazilian’s culture, the protestantism, including methodist, which were not able to gain the poor layers, getting to the middle class. So then the appearance of pentecostalization process in many Brazilian denominations between the presbyterians, the baptists, congregational, lutherans, methodists and others. The Wesleyan Methodist Church has emerged institutionalized, following the models of the Methodist Church of Brazil, where the group left. Then she was taking a Pentecostal identity perpetuating the religious field by creating their own institutional and bureaucratic mechanisms.
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Protestantismo, Metodismo, Pentecostalismo, Igreja Metodista Wesleyana, Igreja Metodista do Brasil, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Methodism, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Brazil’s Methodist Church