THE JUDICIARY AND THE DIVINE LAW: João Dias de Araújo and the labor relations in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil during the civil and military regime

Abstract

This article aims to investigate how pastors and professors of theological seminaries of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPB) during the 1960s and 1970s were framed from a labor point of view. This dimension reflected in a series of discourses, practices and norms existing in the Church, attuned in great measure to the fear of communism spread socially at that time and the need to combat it within the IPB and its places of theological formation. This tension resulted in expulsions of pastors and teachers culminating, in some cases, in a long dispute in the Conciliation and Justice Boards involving these professionals, the leadership of the Church and the direction of these seminars, as happened in Recife with the professor of the Northern Presbyterian Seminary João Dias de Araújo.

Keywords

• Protestantismo
• repressão e justiça