Originally from Southern Brazil, Ednardo’s personal, academic, and ministerial journey has been deeply shaped by Christ’s threefold office of priest, prophet, and king. As an ordained Baptist pastor, he served the young adults and youth at his home congregation, the First Baptist Church of Porto Alegre. As a Theology professor, he teaches Christian Ethics, Leadership, and Biblical Theology at Gramado Theological Seminary. Additionally, as a manager, he leads the TeachBeyond Global Transformational Education Centre for Latin America. His research interests include (1) the Dutch Neo-Calvinist movement and its reception in Brazil, (2) education and formation, and (3) public theology.
Faculdades Batista do Paraná
Neo-Calvinism, Philosophy of Education, and Public Theology
The Dutch Neo-Calvinism and its Reception in Brazil
Master's Program Dissertation. São Leopoldo, RS: Faculdades EST/PPG, 2022.
The subject of this study is Dutch neo-Calvinism and its reception in Brazil, understanding the historical roots of the movement, the conceptual influences of its foundation, the theological evolution of its thought, and the contemporary portrayal of its presence in the country. The first part of the research sought to understand Dutch neo-Calvinism in its terminology, conceptualization and contextualization, as well as to identify its prominent representatives. The second part of the research intended to situate Dutch neo-Calvinism in its Calvinist incubator and to make explicit the first formulations of Abraham Kuyper on the occasion of his Stone Lectures at Princeton. The third part of the research sought to extract from Dutch neo-Calvinism what we can list as its central ideas, namely, the reliability of Scripture, the sovereignty of the Trinitarian God, and the instrumentality of the worldview. The fourth and last part of the research undertook a chronological mapping of the published works and organized institutions on Brazilian soil that, in some way, were inspired by Dutch neo-Calvinism. The study showed that although this reformed school of thought is relatively new in Brazil, and therefore needs more time to be decanted, it has in its tradition theoretical and practical instruments to help national Protestantism to deal with the most diverse ecclesiological, political and social issues.
Notes on theology, social theory and education in Abraham Kuyper’s lecture held at the inauguration of the Free University of Amsterdam in 1880
Protestantismo em Revista, vol. 48, n. 2, Julho/2022: 19-34.
The way in which Abraham Kuyper conceived the nature and role of education in modern European society was recorded in an incipient character in his inaugural lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam. The present memoir serves as a starting point for a brief retrospective of his life and part of his fruitful thinking, as well as an embryonic analysis of the legacy of this modern reformer for the interaction between theology and education. In his speech, he clarifies that education is a divine gift given to humanity in order to keep it free. Furthermore, he proposes that it plays a key role in the social dissemination of knowledge. According to Abraham Kuyper, education must have its own dimension, always appearing independently of the Church and the State.