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Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control. JULIA CAMERON
Because God is so intimately involved with His creation, the entire cosmos reflects the Creator
Similarly, the act of seeing, witnessing, beholding, and appreciating our creative process is essential and nourishing. In fact, God’s creative process is bookended by this act of pausing and appreciating the good, as it says at the end of the creation story, “God saw all that God had made and it was very good.”2
However the art is experienced, the presumption of this book is that the arts in worship ought to be freed to form the church in their own ways, though not on their own terms.