Art and Faith: A Theology of Making

by Makoto Fujimura

By “co-creating into the future of God,” I do not mean that somehow we have the equal weight of power or knowledge to co-create with God. God is the greatest, and perhaps the only, power there is, so what does it mean to co-create? It means to be invited to a dance, invited by God’s grace to be on the stage, to step into a journey of New Creation that we do not yet fully understand. Co-creating is accepting the Creator’s invitation to a feast and supping on what is provided abundantly to us. For mysterious reasons, God chooses to depend on fallen creatures to steward God’s gifts, as poignantly signaled by the incarnate child in the manger who, though he was God, needed human help to survive. Through this weakness and vulnerability, God incarnates into the world that is full of danger and violence.

Co-creating with God