Da tradição à renovação na Igreja Batista da Lagoinha: um olhar sobre o protestantismo renovado

Abstract

This research aims to clarify some aspects of the relationships that occur within the Christian tradition between the traditionalism in the sense of forming a theological-dogmatic more rigid framework and guided in a more rational and systematic, "scholar", experience with the sacred and the movements of "spiritual awakening" which are based on a freer experience in relation to preconceived theological formulations, and often burst a more emotional and mystic spirituality with the sacred. To this end, we followed the historical path of the Igreja Batista da Lagoinha, Belo Horizonte-MG, which emerged in the charismatic movement emergence in the Protestant stream in Brazil, in the middle of the 1950s and 1960s. We attend more specifically, because our research object, to the Baptist churches, who have gone through tensions and ruptures that led two flanks, namely "traditional" and "renewed". Among this "renovated wing", the Igreja Batista da Lagoinha has became the precursor and one of the main representatives of this outbreak of charismatic experience in the Protestant environment. His influence was not limited to the genesis of this movement of "spiritual awakening" in Baptist churches, however, remains influencing Protestant and Pentecostals churches and denominations and even some Charismatic sectors of the Roman Catholic Church, with songs from their Ministry of Praise Diante do Trono, their heterogeneous liturgy and their theological (re)appropriations that provide them a more fluid and dynamic identity.