A responsabilidade social e política dos cristãos: história e memória da união cristã de estudantes do Brasil (UCEB) entre as décadas de 1920 e 1960

Abstract

This Essay intends to recreate the history and memory of the Christian Union of Students from Brazil, since its incipient moment in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the decade of 1920 until its throw out process of the Protestantism in the decade of 1960. It also consists in analyzing the phases of this student movement, affiliated Brazilian the Universal Federation of the Movement of Christian Students and its meetings and disagreements with the theological, social and political aspects present in the churches and in the structures of the Brazilian nation. The main focus refers to the perception of compassion, of the social responsibility and of the political practice always evident in the singularity of the Protestant Christian students' life. Those same students looked for the social revolution and the theological renewal.