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Judaism’s creatio ex-nihilo theology would be supplanted, in mornings to come, by Christianity’s Christological creation. It would be Jesus Christ, pre-existent from eternity, embodying the Johannine Divine Logos of God-the-Father, who would bring forth the Cosmos, the Gospels and the New Covenant to fulfil Israel’s sacred, salvation history in its motion from original sin and alienation, guilt and atonement (OT) towards the forgiveness of sin and reconciliation through faith and love (NT); thus forever transforming the natural, cyclical and ritualistic landscape of ancient polytheistic and theriomorphic Babylonian, Canaanite, and Egyptian creation mythologies.
Not too distant timelines, too, would vividly witness the ideological ποίησις-λόγος clash amongst these Divine Creation arguments for creation out-of-something, as exposited by Grecians, and for creation out-of-nothing and from the Word, as exposited by the Hebrews, and by Islam’s Be! and it is!,10 and the radical Christian theological notion, out of nothing comes created being. The latter would be rigorously debated over many centuries by many Christian theologians. It would be Maimonides’ and Aquinas’ famous “only after privation,” or “after non-existence comes created being,”11 that would mostly prevail.
10 Many passages in Qur’an including Surahs: Q2, 117; Q3, 47; Q 19, 35; Q16, 40; Q6, 73.
11 From Wolfson. Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. Ch. 12. The Meaning of Ex Nihilo in the Church Fathers, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophy, and St. Thomas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 207-221.
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