Art and Creation
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This article by Metropolitan Georges Khodr offers a profound theological reflection on artistic creation, considered in the light of Orthodox Christian doctrine. Adopting a speculative and meditative approach, the author examines the nature of the relationship between human creativity and divine creation. The central idea is that man is not simply a craftsman, but a true creator, participating by analogy and by grace in God's creative act. This participation is grounded in divine kenosis: by freely emptying himself, God opens to man a space of freedom and co-creation. The article thus articulates aesthetics, anthropology, and soteriology, showing that authentic art — of which the icon constitutes the paradigmatic form — is an eschatological foretaste of the Kingdom, a transfiguration of the visible toward uncreated Beauty.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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