The artists present highlighted the great capacity of the photographic medium
for creative transformation within contemporary art in recent years.
As a process theologian Cobb argues that the appropriation of insights from other religions can be authentically Christian, inasmuch as Christianity is itself an ongoing process capable of
creative transformation through openness to other Ways.
That temporal process which we mean by history today is a sequence in which one event follows another without that kind of
creative transformation which we have seen occurs in the fellowship of Jesus.
That it should be open to transformation through the insights of the various traditions, that it should be open to the possibilities of
creative transformation by contact with the wisdom and vision of other sources, is highly...
The divine principle that constantly
seeks creative transformation in everything may be described as God's Logos — the divine, creative Word that expresses the very life of God.
Creative transformation rejects both the «Christ against culture» and the «Christ of culture» stances, because the first entails renouncing all meaningful relationships with the world and the second uncritically embraces the world.
To engage with such a powerful system in ways other than what I have
called creative transformation strategies and through media reform, is doomed to be capitulation, not communication.
But it would not seem possible that we can be genuinely open to that which our structure of existence has transcended and whose greatest hope for its
own creative transformation is found in that which we confess as normative.
Ziolkowski describes having undergone a personal and
creative transformation in recent times and the exhibition reflects his highly individualistic approach to this subject matter.
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Concrescence is a combination of passive conformation to the past and
creative transformation of its initial data.
The words and work, the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord, all of these objectify God's proposition for
the creative transformation of history.
John Cobb uses the expression «
creative transformation» as the most generalized statement of the tale which the divine proposition, objectified in Jesus, presents:
By «Christ» I mean God's incarnate presence in the world, a presence that always expresses itself as
creative transformation.
Creative transformation is a process that is taking place at all times and places but that is particularly manifest in Jesus and in his impact on human history.
Creative transformation is involved in every authentic human experience.
At the same time, Jesus experiences divine freedom and
creative transformation to a unique degree.
If God's overriding aim in every occasion is
creative transformation, freedom, then no relationship to God can experience anything more than that, although it is possible to experience less.
This is certainly understandable and acceptable as long as the primary focus (God's
creative transformation of Jesus» complete openness) is not obscured or subordinated.
Viewed from the side of the Logos, Jesus is the incarnation of the divine principle of
creative transformation.
The creative transformation God worked in Jesus is a further indication of what we may expect for ourselves if, like Jesus, we remain open to what God can and will do rather than predetermining what God should do or what we want God to do for us.
If God relates to everyone and everything and if God's way of relating is through free,
creative transformation, then God's future remains essentially open.
And the story of
that creative transformation has been told ever since.
If God's overriding aim is
creative transformation, that should be ours too.
It is also a measure of our own strength and size, even and especially when this influence of the other helps to effect
a creative transformation of ourselves and our world.
It is also a measure of our own strength and size, even and especially when this influence of the other helps to effect
a creative transformation of ourselves and our world» (TCP 18).
It seeks to re-present and incarnate God's
creative transformation of the world, liberation from all forms of oppression, embodying and cultivating compassion, sensitivity, receptivity, responsiveness, and solidarity with all creatures, in order to enable creative responses to the lures with which God beckons.
David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of
creative transformation is a material norm for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).
And it can be said that Jesus was (and continues to be) «the Christ» in his role of opening others to
creative transformation.
This creative transformation of human life is the revelation of God that occurred in the fellowship of Jesus and continues to occur in the lives of persons when required conditions are present.
Certainly the New Testament writers sincerely tried to explain
the creative transformation that occurred in their lives.
Paradoxically, despite their common interest in
creative transformation of the existing social order, adherents of the two theologies have had little contact with one another.
3 The receiving of influence from another may result in the enlargement of one's identity or
the creative transformation of one's freedom.