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In order respectfully and adequately to compare Confucian and Christian conceptions of creativity, it is necessary to have proper comparative categories. Put roughly, we need to know what creativity is in order to see how Confucianism and Christianity have various versions of it. In respect of what do they agree or differ? So the first order of business is to put forward, however briefly, a theory of creativity in light of which comparisons can be made. Creativity, of course, is a very complicated notion in the West and in East Asia. Two philosophical topics can reveal something of its complication: the problem of the one and the many, and the nature of change.
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Chan, Wing-tsit 1963. Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Cummings Neville, R. Special Topic: Creativity in Christianity and Confucianism. Dao 6, 125–130 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-007-9007-z
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