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Special Topic: Creativity in Christianity and Confucianism

Creativity: A Confucian View

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By focusing on the Confucian ideal of forming one body with Heaven, Earth, and myriad things, I argue that the distinctive feature of Chinese cosmology is not the absence of cosmogonist concerns, but faith in the interconnectedness of all modalities of being as the result of the continuous creativity of the cosmic process.

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  1. Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

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Weiming, T. Special Topic: Creativity in Christianity and Confucianism. Dao 6, 115–124 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-007-9006-0

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