O dogma da Assunção de Maria: um paradigma para a antropologia e a escatologia cristã um estudo histórico-teológico

Abstract

This research focuses on the dogma of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven in body and soul, as proclaimed by Pius XII in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus. It aims to: understand what a dogmatic enunciate is as well as its structure; create a historical path of the devotion to the Assumption; and investigate the implications of this dogma for Christian anthropology and eschatology. The first chapter of this text aimed to understand what a dogmatic enunciate is as well as the historic process of the term, considering its meaning in the Old and New Testaments to arrive in the current conception of dogma as found on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius, proclaimed by the Vatican Council. It also focuses on how this relates to ecclesiology, to magisterium, to sensus fidei, to Tradition, to the Scripture, and to its historical character. The following chapter gives a historical review of the devotion to the Assumption of Mary to understand the evolutionary process in the Church's tradition. To this end, were studied the apocryphal assumptionist literature from the Fourth Century - which is seen as an expression of primitive Church's sensus fidei - as well as the Pope's testimony relating the main assumptionist thinking of the period. The second chapter also discusses the importance of the Franciscan school in the defense of the dogma, citing some of its biggest representatives. Among them is the creator of the Assumptionist movement, Saint Anthony of Padua, who aimed, in the Eighteenth Century, to study the theme with pontiffs and requested a dogmatic definition - as in fact happened in the pontificate of Pius XII. The third chapter presents a study on the fundaments of the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, aiming to analyze how the definition is inserted in the structure of a dogmatic enunciate. That said, this work aims to reflect on the anthropological implications of the dogmatic definition, with special attention to understanding how this dogma cam combat the reasoning of a dualistic anthropological view of the human person and how from a liberationist point of view it promotes the appreciation of poor women's bodies. It then reflects on how the dogma of assumption can be understood as a paradigm for Christian eschatology, since it can be used as a critic to traditional eschatology, also known as dual-phase or intermediate eschatology, and as a defense of immediate resurrection that is more connected to an anthropology with a single view of the human person