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THEO681 Theology, Literature and the Arts

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.

This unit is a study the different ways in which literature and the arts give expression to the religious dimension of human experience. It examines how literature and the arts foster the search for truth, beauty and goodness in the midst of suffering, and critique society and inform a social conscience. Students will explore how various forms of literature and the arts relate to theology and consider conditions and contexts that favour a fruitful interaction between the art of theology and the literary, visual and expressive arts.

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