Jesuits, the Arts, and Education

3 credits

This course aims to prepare any future church minister or religious educator who wants to explore how the Ignatian charism refracted through the arts might animate and strengthen efforts in spirituality, education, and evangelization. Each class will be divided into two distinct though related units: The first part examines historical cases where the arts played a distinctive role in Jesuit schools and missions. The second part reimagines and explores how those models might be translated into contemporary ministerial and educational contexts, with particular sensitivity to how the arts might ground, nourish, and animate a faith that does justice.