Lee wants to make the restatement in terms that are understandable by the Chinese, yet preserve the Christian message. The primary terms of this restatement are creativity and receptivity. Christians know creation, but receptivity is often lost in our worldview. For Lee, to honor both the yin and the yang is to find the receptacle of creativity. This is exciting for the Chinese as it speaks to both embodiment and spirituality.
Incarnation is a foreign term to the Chinese ears, but embodiment is understood.
Ideas can be bodied forth or embodied. Embodiment is not simply matter, but it includes spirituality as well. Teilhard reaffirmed the goodness of matternot materialism, but an affirmation of the goodness of creation. Lee wants to tie spirituality to embodiment because often spirituality in Christianity is separated from the material world. A notion of embodiment, Lee contends, may include spiritual and material in a recognizable and meaningful way for the Chinese people.