Wo-man can be-come a 'duplicate' of the creator (Genesis 3.22); by following the good inclination, we are capable of obtaining any human and social event.
"And it does me good to do what’s difficult. That does not keep me from having a terrible need of―shall I say the word―religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars."―Vincent van Gogh (Letter to Theodorus "Theo" van Gogh, c. Saturday, 29 September 1888)
For instance, Sir Isaak Newton had the ability to long deals with some problems. Faith to be solved and passion allowed him to left everything else aside.
Both require trust in something greater than yourself, typically without a rational sense of what that is.
Perhaps it is not religious faith but faith in the creative process. To be able to adhere to creative endeavors despite set-backs. Take Georgia O'Keeffe for instance--in late life she was beset with macular degeneration, yet she persisted with her art.
There is a really interesting bit in the 33 1/3 issue regarding Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" that discusses this. It talks about a Christian church camp that many of the musicians he would go on to write with attended. The narrative focuses on the non-religion specific spirituality they learned and credits it with expanding their creative abilities.
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I wonder if faith and creativity are similar in that both require a belief in what isn't there, but could be.
As far as my perception goes, faith is different from creativity. Faith means believing oneself and others. Whereas creativity means trying something different, which others have not tried.
If we talk about faith - like thinking process, and look at creativity in same dimension. To got Faith (like discipline) in own "habitus" "agent" must start creative thinking process and found creative measures to Faith in any what ever.
Perhaps the linkage is obscure and not direct. I believe that pregnancy with its first, second, and third trimesters offers a shared metaphor: Patience is necessary, hope for a healthy birth, ability to withstand the possibility of miscarriage mirror what it is like to begin and accomplish a creative endeavor. Faith is required as well as solace when things do not work out as planned.
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