Christianity:
The fundamental dogma of Christianity is that God is love. It is out of love that God who is existence, creates creation. Creation, therefore, is the gift of existence to what does not exist out of itself. Creation is essentially creation out of nothing (no-thing). A loving relationship between the Creator and creation is only possible if both partners are free to consent to it. Creation must be capable of becoming itself. It has to be free to develop through its own history. Only in this way can nature bring forth human beings free to enter (or reject) the loving relationship offered by the Creator.

Science:
The fundamental discovery of modern science is that nature is capable of becoming itself through its own natural law-not through supernatural intervention(s). How does the creative process work in nature? Nature is creative through synthesis. It is the integration of elements into units that creates novelty. Parts (that were previously synthesized) become unified into new wholes. These emerging new entities have properties that the elements in isolation do not have. It is by unifying the diversity of elements into new unities that nature is creative. The history of nature consists of this process of sequential synthesis. It is a probabilistic, not deterministic process through which novelty emerges in nature. Even after catastrophes and disasters, the process continues from the elements left over.

Art:
The main argument is that unification of previously created elements into novelty is not only the creative principle in nature but also in art. The book briefly traces the history of the emergence of polyphonic music from Church-music of the Middle Ages. Monophonic sequences became integrated into new polyphonic elements. These provided the basis for further synthetic steps that integrated such already polyphonic elements into new syntheses, into the music of the Baroque, for example. A sequence of nine paintings by Vasily Kandinsky traces the history of his discovery of a new dimension of the deep-structure of the world. This structure is that the new is brought forth from the integration of the old, (that sometimes first has to be deconstructed).

Conclusion:
The author concludes that in nature and art the new is brought forth through the integration of diversity into new unities. In this view, art is the symbol of creation because in nature and art it is synthesis that creates. Art therefore opens the view into the aesthetic deep-structure of the world which is unity in diversity. In creation and art the creative principle is the same: it is synthesis that brings forth novelty. Why is the ontological structure of nature "unity in diversity?" It is because existence is the gift of the Creator to creation. This gift reflects the absolute existence of God who is existence as unity in the diversity of three persons.