Abstract

BRAVO PENA, Fernando. The study about the Bible in a group of protestant believers of The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Colombia. Soc. relig. [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.46, pp.114-154. ISSN 1853-7081.

This text explores how the believers of the Maranatha Seventh-day Adventist Church study the Bible, in the space of the Sabbath School for adults, in the city of Santiago de Cali-Colombia. Furthermore, it examines the conditions of argumentative legitimacy of the speech made by the believers about the Bible. Then, the text suggests the importance of the reading and study of the bible as an innovating practice that influences the phenomenon of religious conversion of Latin America towards the Protestantism. A situation that contrasts with the fact that Latin American Catholic believer lacks a reading habit about the Bible. This work rescues the most relevant results of a research called “The study about the bible in the Sabbath School for adults of the Maranatha Seventh-day Adventist Church in the city of Cali”, developed to the interior of the Department of Sociology of the Universidad del Valle, Cali - Colombia, in the year 2009.This article presents the theoretical reflections guided by the ethnographic work about the study of the Bible that make Adventists in Sabbath School, emphasizing argumentative resources and the logic of power that prove the believers when they talk about the Bible.

Keywords : Seventh-day Adventist Church; Sabbath School; Bible; Master; Argumentation.

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