De volta à Estação Europa: relatos de viagem e mudança em Alceu Amoroso Lima

Abstract

The trajectory of the Brazilian intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima (1893-1983) was marked by the transformation of his catholic identity - a shift that leaded him from a reactive model of faith, inspired in the decisions of the Trent Council, to a progressive and pluralistic catholic ecclesiology. This change is well known by Amoroso Lima's biographers but, paradoxically, it has not been analyzed in detail by them. The present article is based on the book Europa de Hoje, a travel account of Amoroso Lima's 1950 European pilgrimage. It discusses how that journey helped Amoroso Lima to manage with difficulties for changing his conception of catholic faith and its consequences to the contemporary men.