| dc.description.abstract | Kingdom of God is an expression present in the Bible, in Christian theologies and in
the imaginary of churches since time immemorial and its imaginary strength is an
inexhaustible source of meanings. Starting from the perception that the Our Father's
prayer present in the Gospel according to Matthew (Mt 6,9-13) is inhabited by a
hermeneutic key that demands an interpretation of the Kingdom pleaded in the light
of the invoked Father, it was aimed, with this research, discuss the representations of
the human father and of God as Father in the Bible, underlining the continuities and
discontinuities between human and divine fatherhoods. Thereby, proceeding to an
interpretation of the biblical notion of the Kingdom of God in the light of the
representation of God as Father. The methodology used consisted of analysis of
biblical texts and bibliographic consultation. It was noted that human and divine
paternities are, in the Bible, fluid images whose sliding of senses depends on the
contexts in which they appear. Unlike the human father, who becomes a father, God
is made Father by those who resemble him in the practice of mercy, justice and love.
The Father's face outlined above succeeded in opening a window through which the
biblical representations of God as Father are conceived as a myself rooted in the
desire for freedom and the Kingdom of the Father, as a confession of the desire for
the disappearance of God and by the affirmation of the subject, the emancipation of
the human to rise and rise himself, to humanize. | |
