Courses

The Fellowship is an interdisciplinary group of creatives that come together with both visiting and resident scholars to explore questions like:

Where should we find our identity as Christian creatives?
How do we honor God in our creative process?
How and what can we create that will penetrate the darkness of this world and show people the Kingdom of God?

These courses will answer all these questions and many more. The Fellowship will help define why art is needed more than ever for human faithfulness and flourishing, and it will give students practical methods for meeting and serving God in their own creative process. These courses will give you an understanding of the importance of art and creativity in awakening peoples longing for something outside themselves.

Christian Purpose of Creativity

This course observes contemporary creative culture's ideas about the purpose of creativity. After critically examining current thinking, this course examines Biblical and theological principles of creativity – building a working theology of creativity that sets a foundation and direction for the purpose of Christian creativity.

Christian Identity of the Creative

This course examines the phenomena of identifying as a 'creative', and what creative culture says a creative should be. More specifically, this course explores the cultural influence of emotivism and expressive individualism on creative identity. Lastly, this course, in contrast, explores Biblical principles of finding identity in Christ and how that applies to a creative life.

Christian Formation and the Creative Process

This course examines how the creative process shapes the creative product and the creative person. The course examines current approaches to the creative process and observes the impact on the creative. Lastly, this class explores the concept of creative process liturgies as a Christianly way to conceptualize and carry out the creative process in a way that forms the Christian creative and creative product alike.

Christian Witness of the Creative

This course explores creative products' role as a cultural apologetic and gospel witness in contemporary culture. Exploring the role of goodness, truth, and beauty in culture, the course identifies the limitations of some creative mediums to speak propositional truth. Following, the course examines the strategic role that goodness and beauty can play in gospel witness – calling all creatives to participate in the Great Commission.