ABSTRACT
The long line of thinking on analogy of being, from Aristotle to Aquinas to Erich Przywara in the twentieth century, holds that all empirical realities emerge out of a prior Actuality. This renders the sacramental zone a constantly tossing sea of creative activity. And so Przywara describes the coming-to-be of empirical realities as the result of “the explosive above-and-beyond.” This chapter considers design creativity in this light. In doing so, it answers the question of why, in a cosmos filled with Incarnation and (here) proposed as a constantly creative cosmos, is there evil? And so we address the freedom of human being within the sacramental zone as an actual ontological reality. This is a freedom that can create the Sagrada Familia on the one hand, but also Auschwitz, on the other. This chapter also appraises the debate over analogia entis between Przywara and his leading Protestant opponent, Karl Barth. We look for common ground in the contributions of both to encourage an analogical understanding of moment-by-moment creativity moving forward. Finally, this chapter critiques the structuralist boundaries that constrain disciplinary theories of creativity in the ideas of Donald Schon, Nigel Cross, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and others.
