São Paulo, “Poeta da Loucura”, na visão de Teixeira de Pascoaes

Abstract

Pascoaes claims that sin and remorse are more prolific than virtue. Based on this belief, he constructs the biography of the young Jew Paul of Tarsus, merciless persecuter of the Christians, who, after the death of Steven, the first martyr, had a vision in which God addressed to him. He was then converted and became Paul the Apostle, the divine Poet of Insanity, as Pascoaes calls him. And with the same passionate insanity he had put in chasing Him, Paul began to defend the Christ and spread His teachings to both Jews and pagans, regardless of fatigue, punishment or imprisonment, until he was made a martyr himself. In his first Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul proclaims that “If any one among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise” (1 Cor 3, 16-23).