“You are a systematic theologian in heart and marrow (Afrikaans proverb).” (Adrio König, South African theologian and author)
Glauner da Silva Pereira is a Brazilian theologian and linguist, born in 1961. He holds a Bachelor of Theology (BTh), an Honours Bachelor of Theology (Hons BTh, Systematic Theology), and a Master of Theology (MTh, Systematic Theology, “with distinction”) degrees from the University of South Africa, as well as the Specialist title in Linguistics from the University of Uberaba, MG.
He wrote the following works (in Portuguese):
– Great Theological Mysteries Elucidated: From Creation to the Apocalypse (Formerly, The Truth of the Biblical Message Demonstrated Logically)
– Virtue Is the Origin of All Happiness: A Manual of Universal Proverbial Wisdom
– “I’m impressed”: The Poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, Me and the Bible
– Generosity: The Top of Greatness and Happiness
– Introduction to Missiology: The Study of the Christian Mission
– The Whole Church on Mission: The Missionary Priesthood of All Believers
– Hold God’s Hand and Go! Faith, Prayer, and Spiritual Optimism (English)
His research interests include:
– Theodicy. The eschatological dimension of divine providence
– The doctrine of the Canon
– The missionary priesthood of all believers
– Mission as worship (Christian witness as liturgy)
– The contextualization of the gospel and ethnotheology (especially Clement of Alexandria’s Exhortation to the Greeks; the case of the Incas in Peru; universal literature, especially Fernando Pessoa; and Christian-Guarani Mbyá ethnotheology)
– Paremiology (the study of proverbs)
Master’s Dissertation: A Missiological Theology of Worship (Approved “with distinction”)
He is currently involved in research on the pedagogy of divine revelation in the Old Testament and its value for the study of the Catholic evangelization of the Incas in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the evangelical evangelization of the Quechua people today, mainly in Peru.