Introduction

While anthropologists have periodically invoked creativity in their considerations of social and cultural novelty, more often than creativity is conceived as a psychological response to radical change, the novel actions of individual persons who become a focal point for in their society. In order to avoid reproducing this version of creativity, the proposed as our starting point that the innovations which appear to cause temporal or historical discontinuities are always genius-instigated and unprecedented practices or forms of knowledge. If the starting point for recognition of creativity is the combination of forms, it is also worth noting that some combinations are recognized as creative to the exclusion of others. However, two other predominant metaphors for creativity explored by Joas, 'production', 'revolution', present their own problems. The Edwards' contribution, 'coming to be known' is a process of creative legitimation in English Baptist narratives of conception, wherein the foetus is deemed alive or sentient when it comes to be known by God.