Special topic: Confucian and Christian conceptions of creativity
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 6 (2):105-113 (2007)
| Abstract | In this article the concept of God as creativity (rather than as the Creator ) is explored. Though creativity is a profound mystery to us humans, it is a plausible concept today because of its interconnectedness with the belief that our cosmos is evolutionary: new orders of reality come into being in the course of time. Three modalities of creativity are explored here: the initial coming into being of the universe (the Big Bang); the creativity manifest in evolutionary processes; the human creation of culture. It is suggested that this creativity itself should be thought of as God: God is creativity. Thus God-talk is given a referent that is specifiable in terms of todayâs understandings of the world and the human. God remains a profound mystery here, but one with a significant place in our modern understanding of the world and human life | |||||||||
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