A verdade os libertará!? Autoprodução de um sistema religioso confessional

Abstract

A historical-philosophical reading of the Missouri-Synod Lutheran religious system reveals, in its basal structures, an understanding of religious truth as objective truth. The lens of Niklas Luhmann's sociology helps to uncover the irritations that led the system to self-produce in a rigid confessional posture based on this understanding. This dynamic, observed both in the LCMS and the IELB, is evidenced in the Missourian mission premise: combating error and proclaiming truth. The coexistence of conservatives, moderates, and evangelicals today demonstrates that the system remains subject to irritations and autopoieses. This reading of the huma religious field leads to a second, more normative moment in the text, where the philosophical-theological lenses of Martin Luther, Søre Kierkegaard, and Paul Tillich point to the necessity for the system to restore the unconditional nature of faith and the element of self-criticism to religion. From this, 'rudiments' for a more liberating confessional stance are listed.