Falar da criação no Egipto e no Antigo Testamento

• Autor(a) principal: Carreira, José Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2008.1865

Speaking of creation takes us back to the limits of time and space, at which nobody was present and which can only be imagined. Experience and reason let us down. Only intuition and the symbolic discourse of myth may dare to go back to the beginnings of time. The most obvious thing to do is to transport experience of the production of new things to origins. New living beings appear through generation; new artefacts through work; new works and situations by order of whoever commands. Before the Old Testament, the Egyptians had already turned to the two most obvious forms of creation – through generation and through work. In both cultures, the divine action of creation is expressed through a pallet of verbs (generate, create, make, form, etc.) and of literary genres – simple forms, the hymn and the report. It is that, contrary to what St. Thomas Aquinas thought, no term is appropriate and none even as a set is sufficient. Every conceptual and verbal cannot go beyond approximations.