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Making Good: Creation, Creativity, and Artistry

by Trevor Hart

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Sales Date: 2023-06-15

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CA$87.95

Published: June 2023

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Imprint: Baylor University Press

Page Count: 380 Pages

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

380 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.80 in

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ISBN: 9781602589896

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God spoke, and all that is and all that ever will be came into existence. God alone can be called uncreated and Creator, and creation can only accomplish that which already exists within God's imagination. In Making Good, Trevor Hart argues that human creativity is always a matter of unfolding the possibilities already latent within the original creative event.

Making Good contends that while humans must acknowledge the unique and incomparable dimensions of God's creative activity, the biblical theology of creation encourages rather than prohibits human creativity within a language of creation. Hart's basic contention is that the God known as the Father of Jesus Christ is no domineering deity who jealously seeks to protect his creative prerogatives, but one whose own creativity calls forth, inspires, and enables creative responses on the part of his human creatures.

Making Good blends biblical, historical, and systematic theology into conversation with philosophy, aesthetics, and developments in creative theory among the social sciences. Hart renders a theological account of human artistry and the wider human activities of making good.

Trevor Hart is Rector of Saint Andrew?s Episcopal Church, St Andrews, Canon Theologian of St Ninian?s Cathedral, Perth and Honorary Professor of Divinity at the University of St Andrews.

1. Grammars of Creation

2. Creation, Imagination, and Artistry

3. Comparability and the Conscription of the Creaturely

4. Creation, Incomparability, and Otherness

5. Cosmos: A World (Not) of Our Own Making

6. Ethos: Give and Take in the Order of Signs

7. Response-able: Reality and Its (Mis)representations

8. Art, Mimesis, and Transformation

9. Origination, Image, and Autonomy

10. Imagination, Alterity, and Contradiction

11. Creativity, Art, and Originality

12. Creativity, Collaboration, and Accountability

13. Creativity, Gratuity, and Utility

14. Creativity, Christ, and Correlation

Making Good is a wise and wide ranging study of human creativity, a rich and provocative topic with a complex history. With great skill and sensitivity Trevor Hart creatively draws modern philosophy, aesthetic theory, and Christian theology into a sustained dialogue, as he explores our call to active participation in the Trinitarian drama of creation and redemption.
Roger Lundin, Arthur F. Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning, Wheaton College

Hart's book is replete with rich biblical, cultural, historical, and theological analysis and commentary that repay the reader's investment.
Stephen Jenks, Books at a Glance

This book is clearly a labour of love and rich with insights.
Robin Gill, Theology

This is the kind of book that stays with you, draws you back for re-reading, and deepens the resonances of daily life.
Imogen Adkins, Anglican Theological Review

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