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Partindo da relação entre o conceito de devoção e um determinado modo de relação com a realidade, também no pensamento, explora-se a diferença entre duas atitudes fundamentais: uma de controlo e outra de atenção. A espiritualidade bíblico-cristã situa-se no âmbito da segunda, permitindo assim a superação de certa modernidade controladora, mas também de novas espiritualidades concentradas na afirmação e
na felicidade do “si mesmo”. A proposta final, no sentido da afirmação de uma atitude devocional como forma de ser, recupera a espiritualidade dos Génesis, na abertura do humano à dádiva gratuita, no sétimo dia ou no Domingo da Criação. Nessa atitude – que implica a aceitação da condição mortal e vulnerável do humano – ficam para trás definitivamente pretensões prometeicas do sujeito moderno e de certa Europa
centrada em si mesma.
Starting from the relationship between the concept of devotion and a particular way of relating to reality, even in thought, this article explores the difference between two fundamental attitudes: the one of control and the other of attention. Biblical-Christian spirituality is located within the second, making it possible to overcome a certain controlling tendency in modernity but also new spiritualities concentrated on the affirmation and happiness of the ‘self’. The ultimate aim, in the sense of affirming a devotional attitude as a way of being, recovers the spirituality of Genesis, at humanity’s opening to the free gift on the seventh day or Sunday of Creation. This attitude – which implies acceptance of the mortal and vulnerable condition of being human – leaves behind once and for all any Promethean pretensions of the modern individual and of a Europe centred on itself.
Starting from the relationship between the concept of devotion and a particular way of relating to reality, even in thought, this article explores the difference between two fundamental attitudes: the one of control and the other of attention. Biblical-Christian spirituality is located within the second, making it possible to overcome a certain controlling tendency in modernity but also new spiritualities concentrated on the affirmation and happiness of the ‘self’. The ultimate aim, in the sense of affirming a devotional attitude as a way of being, recovers the spirituality of Genesis, at humanity’s opening to the free gift on the seventh day or Sunday of Creation. This attitude – which implies acceptance of the mortal and vulnerable condition of being human – leaves behind once and for all any Promethean pretensions of the modern individual and of a Europe centred on itself.
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Devoção Espiritualidade Vulnerabilidade Gratuidade Festa Devotion Spirituality Vulnerability Gratuity Feast
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DUQUE, João Manuel – A devoção da Europa: elogio da vulnerabilidade. Didaskalia. Lisboa. ISSN 0253-1674. 45:2 (2015) 221-232.
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculdade de Teologia