A HERANÇA ORIGINAL: AS CONSEQUÊNCIAS DO PECADO DE ADÃO E EVA PARA A CONDIÇÃO HUMANA DE ACORDO COM A SUMMA THEOLOGIAE (1273) DE TOMÁS DE AQUINO

Abstract

The Original Sin of Adam and Eve has fostered for all Salvation History radical changes in human nature (Genesis: 3-14, 24). Augustine of Hippo in his De civitate Dei (426), Books XIII and XIV, visiting this thematic, elucidates that death was one of the consequences of the primal act, since God was not the creator of anything harmful to men. In the same way, as a result of tnhe Original Sin, there are labor pains for women and concupiscence of the flesh, which shall cause the body to be presented by the bias of negativity in the Middle Ages. In this framework, the discourses that came to and were perpetuated in the imaginary of the central-medieval period carried with them the negative representations of the Sin of Adam and Eve, corresponding to the fear of sexual pleasure, the shame of the flesh, and unbridled desire. Subsequently to the Original Sin, sexual desire has fled the realms of human reason, featuring man as a being with no submission of carnality to rational control, which prompts na individual totally subject to desire and bearer of unbridled drives. In this sense, Thomas Aquinas, in his work Summa Theologiae (1273), on the Original Sin, through sexual shame, in the Treaty of vices and sins (ST, I-II, q 72-89), of the Pars Prima Secundae, considers the primal act as a sin of concupiscence. In addition, we consider the period as a temporality based on the pillar of the flesh, in which the Christian imaginary and speeches engendered a specific ethos to be followed and relegated dissidences to the margins of Society.