Resumen de Um huguenote e um católico e a questão da (in)dissolubilidade do matrimônio em Luanda, no século XVII (A Gloriosa Família, de Pepetela (1997)).
- English
This study was carried out to call forth in the novel A Gloriosa Família by Pepetela (1997) from Angola, the international dimension of a religious confrontation between the Catholic nobility, led by the Guise, and the Calvinist bourgeoisie supported by the Bourbons, which led up to the slaughter of the Huguenots, French protestants, in Saint Bartholomew's night (1572), in Paris, and its survivals put to flight into the Netherlands and other countries. In the "new historical novel", which shows the course followed by the mestizo Van Dum family in the course of the years of the Dutch occupation of Luanda (1641-1648), the obstinate dispute with the Portuguese concerning slaves meant for sugar-cane plantations in Brazil, a conflict of faith and dogma takes place between a Huguenot and a Catholic on account of a marriage: Jean Du Plessis and his father-in-law Baltazar Van Dum. The officer of French ancestry, born in the Netherlands, arrived at the port of Luanda (1641), as a member of the conquering army and got married to Matilde who committed adultery. In face of such a family tragedy, the husband decided in favor of breaking up his marriage which, according to Calvinist tradition. did not have any sacramental nature, and that shook the Catholic foundations of the marriage indissolubility ideology. The article, based on the bibliographic method, assumes that the Calvinist church created in the context of the reform of Roman Catholicism unleashed by Luther (1517) would not have excluded the sacramental character and dogma of the indissolubility of marriage.
- português
O objetivo do estudo é evocar no romance A Gloriosa Família, do angolano Pepetela (1997), a dimensão internacional de um confronto religioso entre a nobreza católica, liderada pelos Guise, e a burguesia calvinista, apoiada pelos Bourbon, que culminou no massacre dos huguenotes, protestantes franceses, na noite de São Bartolomeu (1572), em Paris, e desencadeou a fuga dos sobreviventes para a Holanda e outros países. No “novo romance histórico”, que mostra a trajetória da família mestiça Van Dum, nos anos da ocupação de Luanda pelos holandeses (1641 a 1648), em acirrada competição com os portugueses pelos escravos para as plantações de cana-de-açúcar do Brasil, desenrola-se um conflito de fé e dogma entre um huguenote e um católico sobre o casamento: Jean Du Plessis e seu sogro Baltazar Van Dum. O oficial de ascendência francesa, nascido na Niederlande, aportou em Luanda (1641), como membro do exército conquistador e se casou com Matilde que cometeu adultério. Diante dessa tragédia familiar, o marido optou pela ruptura do casamento, que não tem caráter sacramental, segundo a tradição calvinista, e abalou o alicerce católico da ideologia da não dissolução matrimonial.
