The Mind of the Maker

[1][page needed] The work has a Latin dedication to Saint Athanasius and to British Christian leaders.

[2] Sayers' work finds readers beyond the religious world, as evidenced by reference to it in the software management book The Mythical Man-Month.Dorothy Sayers, in her excellent book, The Mind of the Maker, divides creative activity into three stages: the idea, the implementation, and the interaction.

A book, then, or a computer, or a program comes into existence first as an ideal construct, built outside time and space, but complete in the mind of the author.

The creation is complete when someone reads the book, uses the computer, or runs the program, thereby interacting with the mind of the maker.

This description, which... Sayers uses to illuminate not only human creative activity but also the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, will help us in our present task.