SERVICE SPECTACULARIZATION BEFORE THE GOD OF THE GENTLE BREEZE
THE EPHEMERAL HUMAN BEING IN SEARCH OF THE ETERNAL
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https://doi.org/10.19141/1809-2454.kerygma.v14.n02.p29-34Keywords:
Spectacle, Post-modernity, KnowledgeAbstract
According to the expression of the French writer Guy Debord, the contemporary human being lives in the spectacle society, a present eternal fake simulacrum – artificial and visceral – where the dissolute existence grows in face of the original and forgotten human essence inherited without intermediation by the hidden God. Facing this sad Western sociological and philosophical finding – attested by Zygmunt Bauman, Gilles Lipovetsky and Gianni Vattimo, among many others – the human being continues to live among tensions and divisions already attested by the Apostle of the Gentiles in the beginning of Christianism. In this regard, to a great extent the idolatrous and consumerist narcissism curbs and almost kills love itself. Christ’s religion shows that it is Love – God Himself – not the man, the measure of all things, being Himself the distributor and collector of the spiritual gifts that should infuse blessings not only to the church, but to the whole community. The present communication aims to approach this difficult dialectic initiated since the title from the historical reading of contemporaneity permeated through biblical questions selected with the purpose of discussing possibilities of bonds between the service presented by the human being and the acceptable by God.
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