I believe, the one important contribution that Christianity has made to esthetics. Unfortunately, we are likely to use the words creation and creativeness very vaguely and loosely because we do not relate them properly to our theology. But it is significant that the Greeks did not have this word in their esthetic at all. They looked on a work of art as a kind of techne, a manufacture. Neither, for that matter, was the word in their theology—they did not look on history as the continual act of God fulfilling itself in creation.
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