The Republican tension between the universality of citizenship and the partiality of political party action: a traditional Protestant perspective

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Evaldo Luis Pauly

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The article studies the lack of justification of the public policies. This lack creates moral dilemmas to reflect theoretically the relationship between faith and politics. One of the dilemmas lies in the political confusion between the privacy of individual awareness and publicity of government management. The paper proposes an interdisciplinary approach between theology and pedagogy to examine faith and political relationship in the current political and social conjuncture Brazilian. Faith and political relationship from the perspective of liberation theology comes closest to theoretical concept of the separation than the distinction. Bobbio and Freire are the main theoretical references for pedagogical analysis of the relationship between faith and politics from the perspective of popular education. The conclusion justifies because, for the Republican morality, the school has a legal obligation and the teaching staff have scientific expertise to provide universal compulsory education as part of complex training for citizenship.

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PAULY, Evaldo Luis. The Republican tension between the universality of citizenship and the partiality of political party action: a traditional Protestant perspective. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 12, n. 33, p. 43–69, 2014. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2014v12n33p43-69. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2014v12n33p43. Acesso em: 14 aug. 2025.
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Evaldo Luis Pauly, Centro Universitário La Salle - Unilasalle Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Canoas, RS

Possui mestrado em Teologia pela Escola Superior de Teologia (1993) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2000). É professor e coordenador do Programa de Pós Graduação em Educação do Centro Universitário La Salle de Canoas/RS.