Discussion based on Blaise Pascal’s Pensées.

Discussion based on Blaise Pascal’s Pensées.

A recap of the semester and a brief reflection on the artistic creativity of Jesus.

Guest speaker, Juan Alcala, presents J. R. R. Tolkien’s ideas about the human need to tell stories.

Resource presentation and discussion of John D. Inazu’s Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016) – led by Chris Musgrove, Director of CRU at UF.

Discussion of a selection of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath poems and Mako Fujimura’s paintings. If you would like links to the videos and artwork shown in this class, please contact the Study Center office ([email protected]).

Discussion of Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill” and introduction to Wendell Berry’s “A Timbered Choir”

Flannery O’Connor re-frames the imaginative exploration of possibilities.

Resource presentation and discussion based on Andy Crouch’s Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power (InterVarsity Press, 2013) – led by Chipper Flaniken, Pastor at City Church.

Trinitarian structure of experience and artistic creativity from Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker (Harcourt Brace, 1941; Harper Collins, 1987).