Abstract This paper aims to reflect on homiletics and Christian preaching as a voice of promise in a paradoxical context such as the Brazilian and Latin American. Initially it will reflect upon three characteristic types of relationship between preaching and promise: the eschatological and transcendentalist preaching that locates the promise in an afterlife or the end of times; the humanistic and liberating preaching that places the promise in the dimension of the socio-political struggle for transformation in the present; the individualistic and prosperity-oriented preaching that projects promise as material achievement and hedonistic satisfaction. Finally, faced with this reality, we seek ways in literature (Two Words, by Isabel Allende) and in popular culture (Central do Brasil, a movie by Walter Salles) to help us in creating a sermon that announces the promise amid the paradoxes of life in order to contribute not merely to individual, ecclesial or ideological satisfaction, but to point to human and cultural transformations.

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宣讲承诺和希望：拉丁美洲的宣讲和活生生的宗教模式

摘要 本文旨在反思在巴西和拉丁美洲等自相矛盾的背景下，讲道和基督教讲道作为一种应许的声音。首先，它将反思讲道与应许之间三种特征类型的关系：将应许定位在来世或末世的末世论和超验主义讲道；人文主义和解放性的讲道，将承诺置于当今社会政治变革斗争的维度中；个人主义和以繁荣为导向的讲道，将承诺作为物质成就和享乐主义的满足。最后，面对这一现实，我们在文学（伊莎贝尔·阿连德的《两个词》）和流行文化（巴西中央，